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Mega £2,000,000,000 jackpot up for grabs today in world’s biggest lottery draw

December 22, 2021
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The world’s biggest lottery jackpot is being dished out this afternoon.

Spain’s bumper Christmas draw makes lucky ticket-holders rich beyond their wildest dreams every year.

This festive period, the prize money is an eye-watering £2 billion pound and is shared out among multiple winners.

The top-prize number holder wins around £340,000 and there are plenty of lesser prizes to go ahead.

The lottery, which has been a tradition for more than two centuries, is nicknamed ‘El Gordo’ or ‘The Fat One’.

While there are big individual prizes to be won, Spain’s Christmas lottery takes the prize for the biggest overall pot.

People can queue for hours in the days running up to the lottery to snatch their 20-euro tickets from the most popular vendors. 

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Lottery shop owners and winners celebrate a Second prize-winning ticket in the popular draw (Picture: Reuters)
epa09653792 Workers of a lottery administration celebrate selling the number 89109, winner of one of the fifth prizes of El Gordo traditional Spanish Christmas Lottery draw in Aviles, Asturias, Spain, 22 December 2021. The traditional Spanish Christmas Lottery 'El Gordo' (The Fat One) will share out a total of 2.38 billion euros that will be divided in 15,304 prizes. The main prizes per ticket are, 400,000 euros for the first prize; 125,000 for the second; 50,000 for the third; 20,000 for the fourth; and 6,000 for the fifth. The big drum contains a total of 100,000 wooden balls with the lottery numbers, where the small one contains a total of 1,807 wooden balls with the prizes' quantities. EPA/ELOY ALONSO
The national lottery has offered some respite from the doom and gloom of the pandemic (Picture: EPA)

Some buy them for themselves or as gifts for others. Work colleagues, relatives or friends also pool money to buy them, with their eyes set on sharing the prizes.

Despite a spiraling number of coronavirus cases — Spain on Tuesday scored its pandemic record of new infections, with nearly 50,000 reported in one day — the public is returning to Madrid’s Teatro Real opera house after last year’s hiatus.

Following the tradition, children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school call out prize-winning numbers, followed by jubilant street and bar scenes of winners celebrating with uncorked bottles of sparkling wine.

The lottery is run by the state and supports several charity efforts.

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