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The draws, which are held in Madrid on 22nd December every year and considered a national event, differ from standard lotteries in two important aspects. Unlike other lotteries, whose draws are generally brief and completed with relatively little fanfare, El Gordo de Navidad draws take hours to complete due to the sheer number of prizes and the format is closer to a raffle than a standard lottery.
The balls are drawn from two machines, called ‘bombos’, which each hold thousands of balls. One bombo contains balls inscribed with a pre-determined number combination, while the other bombo contains balls inscribed with a prize value. Each pre-determined number is printed on numerous tickets so, when a prize is selected to correspond with the number drawn, the prize fund for that tier will be shared between all of the players whose ticket matches the number drawn.
Live results
Here are the results of the Christmas Lottery, updated live on 22 from December:
El Gordo Primer Premio
26590
2o Prize:
10989
3o Prize:
00750
4o Prize:
41710
49797
5o Prize:
06293
23059
54527
66212
69823
74770
75206
81610
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The drawing process includes a ball that is selected from each drum simultaneously, and keep going until the bass drum is empty. It takes hours to complete this process, and it has become a prominent cultural event in the Spanish annual calendar. To add excitement to the atmosphere, the children of the San Ildefonso school in Madrid are in charge of selecting the balls and singing the results.
The draw, held in Madrid on 22 December of each year, it is considered a national event and differs from standard lotteries in two important ways. This is very different from other lottery draws, whose draws are usually short and complete with relatively little spectacle. The draw for the Fat Christmas, instead, takes hours to complete due to the large number of prizes and the format being more like a raffle than a standard lottery.
The balls are drawn from two machines called "drums", containing each of the thousands of balls. One of the drums contains the balls that come with a predetermined number, while the other drum contains the balls with the value of the different prizes available. Each default number appears on many tickets, so when a prize is selected that corresponds to the number drawn, the amount of the prize for said numbering must be distributed among all the players who have said number.
Low numbers
Next to the number of the first prize, This year has been characterized by the luck of the 'short' numbers, As the 4.211, graced with the third prize; he 7.568 and 2.308, awarded with two fifths.
Despite the fact that the 'Gordo’ has been waiting, Not so the rest of the jackpots of this draw that started last 18 minutes of the expected hour (9.00 hours), leaving the first prize just two minutes later, a fifth prize that went to number 47,862.Nerea Pareja has sung this first winning number of the draw full of emotion, between tears and with a broken voice. Next to her, Alonso Dбvalos has been in charge of singing the award, calmer than his partner.
However, It was not the only jackpot that hid the first table. He has also left another fifth prize that has gone to the 7.568, eight minutes after the first fifth. A little more relaxed, Nerea and Alonso have proclaimed the winning number and the corresponding award associated with it, 60.000 euros to series.
At 9.30 the third of the prizes left by the first table appeared. The coveted second prize went to the number 21.015. Excited and happy, Nerea and Alonso have proclaimed the award endowed with 1.250.000 euros to series.
The little ones have been gaining confidence as this first table was developed, in which a couple of balls have slid across the carpet of the stage of the Royal Theater of Madrid. In this first table of the draw he has extracted the balls of the Santos Felipe Heredia numbers and the prizes, Daniela couple.
The second table has been the moment of two of the veterans, the girls Nazaret Blanco and Nicole Valenzuela, who have sung two fifth prizes, endowed with 60.000 euros each. “I have participated many times in the raffle, four already”, confessed to Europa Press during Nazareth rehearsals, of 12 years.
During this table, Nazaret Blanco has sung the numbers and Nicole Valenzuela, What did the 'Gordo sing?’ in 2015 and 2016, the awards, while those in charge of extracting the balls have been A. Malika Ben Hamdouch y Josй Antonio Siri. “I would love to give 'El Gordo'. See if it's possible. Also this is my last year”, Nazareth explained, who has had to settle for singing two fifth prizes.
The third fifth prize of this 2018 has fallen back on the number 68.402 and it has been sung on the fourth wire of the second table at 9.58 hours. Just three minutes later, at 10.01 hours, the fourth fifth prize has come out on the fifth wire, what has been for the number 29.031.
The second table has passed without incidents or anecdotes and has distributed fewer prizes than the same table last year, who left the second prize, endowed with 1.250.000 euros to series, which this time has appeared in the first table; and four fifth prizes, endowed with 60.000 euros to series.
How to Play
Tickets for El Gordo de Navidad are unlike those in other world lotteries. Instead of buying a single ticket, Navidad tickets are sold as either a full ticket, known as a ‘billete’, or a tenth of a ticket known as a ‘decimo’. Rather like a raffle, players buy pre-printed tickets, and each number can be sold as many as 180 times in what is known as a ‘series’, meaning there will be multiple billetes displaying the same number.
Prize Breakdown
The prize tiers below are per billete:
| First Prize “Fat” | 1 | €4,000,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Second Prize | 1 | €1,250,000 |
| Third Prize | 1 | €500,000 |
| Fourth Prize | 2 | €200,000 |
| Fifth Prize | 8 | €60,000 |
*The number of prizes is calculated by multiplying the winning combinations drawn by the number of billetes in the series. For example, there would be 180 x €4,000,000 “Fat” prizes if the number of billetes in the series was 180.
†As the prize amount is per billete, the prize value is divided by the number of players participating on a billette. For example, if 10 players each had a ‘decimo’, they would receive 1/10 of the billet prize amount.
The table above shows the top 5 prize tiers but the ‘pedrea’, or ‘shower of prizes’, includes hundreds of further prizes drawn throughout the day.
El Gordo de Navidad draws frequently include a ‘variation’ which gives players additional prizes for matching the variation chosen. For example, the variation for the 2012 draw entitled the holder of any ticket number ending in 8 to claim a prize.
Three awards in 7 minute
For his part, the third and fourth tables of the Christmas Draw 2018 they have only distributed stones, which has forced attendees to wait for the fifth table to see three jackpots fall in seven minutes.
At 11.17 hours, Yanisse Alexandra Soto and Juliбn Steven Mendoza had already sung two fifth prizes, he 63.025 and the 20.202, as well as the first of the two fourth prizes, he 42.206, the latter endowed with 200.000 euros to series.
After these intense seven minutes of emotion, both have drunk water to refresh their vocal cords and continue singing the rest of this fifth table, which has concluded at 11.36 hours, with stones and a ball quickly picked up from the carpet by little Yanisse Alexandra.
The musical note was put by Juliбn Steven. In front of the way of singing the stones of Aya Ben Hamdouch, the girl who took center stage in 2017 for his way of lengthening his song, his partner Juliбn Steven has been characterized by shortening them.
For his part, in the sixth table, the girl of San Ildefonso Haffsa Er-Erkaibi has been in charge of singing the number and her partner Ilyas Akrouh has sung the awards. While, Diana Elisabeth Heredia and Alejandra Pareja have extracted the balls.
Within two minutes of starting this sixth table, at 11.40 hours, came the seventh fifth prize of the traditional Christmas raffle, that has fallen into the number 18.596; and only three minutes later, at 11.43 hours, Ilyas has covered the second wire as a sign that he had a prize ball in his hand. It was the second fourth prize that has been for the number 67.774. Breaths, at 11.53 hours the children have sung the last fifth prize that has gone to the number 2.308.
Aside from the four ball drop, that have rolled around the stage of the Teatro Real before being rescued by the children of San Ildefonso and the descent of two balls by the trumpet too closely, the sixth table has passed without further incidents.
The stone has returned to be the protagonist when reaching the seventh table, that has started the 12.10 hours and it's over 23 minute, without any of the jackpots. As a curiosity, two sisters have participated in this table, Wendy and Fernanda Daniela Laborde.
