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ARCHIVED - Average spending on the El Gordo Christmas lottery expected to top 65 euros in Murcia
One lottery office in San Pedro del Pinatar sold the winning number in both 2017 and 2018!
As colder weather settles in most areas of Spain thoughts are already turning to Christmas, and of course in this country that means that people are stocking up not only on gifts and food but also on “El Gordo” lottery tickets in the hope that Lady Luck might bring them an extra present this year.
In the Region of Murcia the lottery administration board calculates that on average each inhabitant spends 65.51 euros on El Gordo tickets, and although that may seem a lot in fact it is among the lower figures in the 17 regions of Spain. While the nationwide average is not much more at 68.48 euros spending is significantly higher in northern regions, reaching 105.70 euros in Castilla y León, 99.36 euros in Asturias, 96.32 euros in La Rioja, 94.11 euros in Aragón and 85.83 euros in Cantabria. The average Madrileño “invests” 82.75 euros in tickets, while at the bottom of the scale are the Balearics (42.61 euros), the Canaries (46.44 euros), Andalucía (53.53 euros), Catalunya (54.81 euros) and Extremadura (56.55 euros).
However, while in general terms the number of El Gordo tickets sold in the Costa Cálida is lower than in some other parts of Spain, at one lottery administration outlet in San Pedro del Pinatar sales are likely to be brisk as the big draw on 22nd December approaches. At the El Perolo outlet in Calle Gabriel Cañadas winning tickets have been sold in each of the last two years, and working on the theory that “where there are two, there are three”, the management is confident that people will place their faith in a continuation of this winning streak.
This office has only been open for four years, but the glut of major “El Gordo” prizes includes not only first prize tickets in 2017 and 2018 but various others of the big winning numbers. In just a short time it has become one of only four lottery offices in the whole of Spain to have sold the winning number twice, despite the lottery having been held for over 200 years.
Incredible though it seems, manager Miguel Ángel Zapata is quoted in regional newspaper La Opinión as explaining that the good fortune of his office (and of his customers) is more than just a matter of luck. He claims that he uses a mathematical formula to rule out certain numbers from the tickets he applies for on the basis of their having won recent prizes, and that this stacks the odds in his favour.
Any statistician will confirm that this “method” has absolutely no scientific basis, but those who have purchased the winning “El Gordo” number in the last two years will not be complaining!
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