Spanish Christmas lottery to offer over $3 bn in prize money

The drawing involving Spain's Christmas lottery upon Dec. 22 will distribute 2,240 million euros ($3
billion) throughout prizes, associated with which in turn 640 will correspond towards the "Gordo"
(the Body Fat One).
The SELAE state lottery society debuted Tuesday the actual lottery and in addition the TV
commercial built to market ticket sales, any spot by simply film director Pablo Berger featuring the
voices involving Montserrat Caballe, Rafael, Marta Sanchez, Nia Pastori and David Bustamante.
The president associated with SELAE, Inmaculada Garcia, provides revealed the facts of the
Christmas Lottery, which in turn this season as a novelty provides decreased the particular quantity
of series coming from 180 in order to 160 in order to alter the actual provide towards the demand,
which in turn does not within any way mean, the lady said, that there will possibly be the "drop
within the variety of prizes per series as well as inside the amount."
The lottery will be composed associated with 160 series of 100,000 tickets each, at a cost of 200
euros ($269) per ticket, every divided into tenths associated with 20 euros ($27).
The lottery, being celebrated inside the classic approach at Madrid's Teatro Real, maintains the
identical prizes, the very first being 4 million euros ($5.4 million) per series and also 400,000 euros
($537,000) per tenth; the next of 1.25 million euros ($1.68 million), and the third of 500,000 euros
($672,000).
There will even be a pair of fourth prizes involving 200,000 euros ($269,000) per
http://blog.national-lottery.co.uk/ series, eight fifth prizes involving 60,000 euros ($81,000), and
1,794 prizes involving 1,000 euros ($1,343).
Sales for the lottery, Garcia said, are usually virtually approximately final year's level, with a slight
drop involving an unspecified amount, even though the lady believes the final outcomes will be
positive.
And which is since inside the final quarter there was an uptick throughout national lottery sales,
after a specific stagnation within the first several weeks of the year, Garcia said.
"We're in crisis as well as in which may be observed in every sectors, yet where it's least seen can be
inside the Christmas lottery," Garcia said. EFE