No 1003 Monday 25th - Sunday 31st December 2023
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THE LEADER NEWSPAPER WISHES A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF OUR ADVERTISERS AND READERS
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he top prize of the ‘El Gordo’ Christmas Lottery, drawn in Madrid on Friday, was sung out by a pair of nervous schoolboys. The lucky number is 88008, resulting in €4,000,000 per ten ticket series, winning €400,000 for each ticket holder.
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In keeping with tradition, the lucky numbers were sung by children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school in a nationally televised draw on Friday from the Teatro Opera House in the capital. This keenly awaited lottery has proven to be worth the wait, handing out more than $2.86 billion in prizes to hundreds of winners across the country, spreading its wealth far and wide.
O R I H U E L A R U S S O / U K R A I N E C A F ET E R I A SCOOPS €1.2 MILLION EL GORDO WIN
The complex rules of the draw, which allow for many purchases of the same lottery number, make it almost impossible to determine exactly how many people have won. The tickets with the winning number are often sold across several towns and cities, many of which are within the Vega Baja. Indeed, on Friday, prizes to the value of 101,818,000 euros were won in the province of Alicante alone. The most anticipated prize, ‘the Fat One’, went to number 88008, leaving a total of 6,000,000 euros in 15 tenths. Most of them have been won in Elche, although other lucky people with a share of the top prize can be found in Benidorm, Torrevieja, Alicante and Santa Pola.
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