El Gordo de Navidad. El Gordo de Navidad has been running in Spain since 1812, becoming famous for offering a prize pot of over €2 billion - there is a €2.38 billion prize pool for the upcoming 2019 ...

Cape Town - Queues have formed in Spain to buy tickets for the world’s richest lottery which will give out prizes worth a grand total of more than R32 billion (from €2 billion) in prizes. The annual ...

Breaking Down the World's Biggest Lottery - El Gordo, formally known as the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, is one of Spain's biggest lotteries, held each Dec. 22. Founded in 1812, it has become - ...

Known officially as Lotería de Navidad, El Gordo (translated as "The Fat One") is the world’s largest lottery in terms of total prize money. Established in 1812 , the lottery has grown to ...

Spain's 22 December annual Christmas lottery began during the Napoleonic wars in 1812 and has continued largely without interruption since then, making it the longest-running lottery in the world.

'El Gordo' lottery in Spain spreads Christmas riches worth $2.8 billion ... Multiple tickets with the same number can be sold to different groups and full tickets are divisible into 10 parts.

A lottery ticket shop worker poses for a photo after selling the winning Christmas lottery ticket known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, in Logroño, Spain, Sunday Dec. 22, 2024.

Spaniards have been anticipating the arrival of “El Gordo” or “The Fat One” for... 'El Gordo' lottery in Spain spreads Christmas riches worth $2.8 billion ...

Why El Gordo de Navidad is known as the world’s biggest lottery. If a particular number is drawn out during the El Gordo de Navidad results, all the tickets from all the series with that number ...

El Gordo de Navidad. What it is: Known as “The Fat One,” this Christmas lottery is a national tradition; Tickets: Split into décimos (tenths); each one costs €20; Odds of winning: 1 in 6 – considered ...

Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 are celebrating. They have each won 400,000 euros ($440,000), in the top prize of Spain's huge Christmas lottery.