The number 88,008 has been awarded the Gordo, the first prize of the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw, endowed with 4,000,000 euros for the series. Luck has reached many parts of Andalusia, although it has focused, above all, on Seville and Jaén, provinces where up to 200,000 euros have been distributed.
The winning ball fell later than usual, at 1:16 p.m., just when the lucky ones burst into tears of joy. After every tenth, a story. From a dance club in Jaén to a family from Écija, in Seville, who received the good news in the ICU hallway of a hospital.
In Seville there have been up to 304 tenths with this number, or what is the same, 121,600,000 million euros have been distributed with 'El Gordo', most of them in Écija (150 tenths); in Dos Hermanas (70) and in the capital of Seville (51).
Jaén, with 206 tenths of the number 88,008, has distributed 82,400,000 million euros. The prize fell almost entirely to the capital of Jaén.
Granada has been another of the provinces that has also taken a good pinch in this draw with 'El Gordo'. Specifically, 10 million euros have been obtained, 8.4 of which have gone to the municipality of Pinos Puente.
Cádiz distributed 1,600,000 euros with "a number of those that many people see and say, it's not very pretty, but hey, come on, give it to me." This is how the lottery of the 'El Paraíso' lottery administration, in Jerez de la Frontera, defined the winning number, which last year sold one tenth of the 'Gordo' from the Extraordinary Draw of the Christmas Lottery and this year has repeated it with another tenth that has left 400,000 euros for the lucky person who acquired it.
"It's true that it was the latest Gordo, but it gave us a wonderful late joy," said Carmen the lottery girl, who described it as "very strong to give the second consecutive Gordo." "These things are not forgotten," she added.
Andalusia with 501,684,800 euros is the second autonomous community that plays the most money in the Extraordinary Draw of the 2023 Christmas Lottery that will be held this Friday, December 22, a figure that has increased by more than 16 million euros compared to the previous year. last year, set at 485.6 million.
Furthermore, each Andalusian spends an average of 59.02 euros in the draw this year, which places the region 12.65 euros below the national average, which is 71.67 euros per person.
Seville and Cádiz are the Andalusian cities that have been favored the most times, since they have won the 'Gordo' on 18 and 12 occasions, respectively, in the entire history of the draw, according to data from State Lotteries and Betting consulted by Europe Press. After these capitals is Malaga, eleven times awarded with the highest prize in the Christmas Lottery.
