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Winners across Spain celebrate results of 2019 El Gordo Christmas lotteryNews Story
Includes video report Just eight minutes after the draw began, the top prize was called for the number 26590 The winning number in this year's Christmas lottery popularly known as El Gordo (The Fat One) is 26590. The lucky five-digit figure corresponding to the top 4 million prize was sung out by two children from San Ildefonso school as per tradition at 9.19am just eight minutes after the draw began. The first prize-winning number in the hugely popular draw was sold at lottery offices
Dec 23, 2019, 7:50 am - Lottery News

French lottery operator stock price surges after $2.1 billion IPONews Story
Includes video report Francaise des Jeux (FDJ) SAEM shares soared as much as 20% after the French lottery operator raised about 1.89 billion euros (US$2.1 billion) in the country's largest initial public offering since the 2005 sale of power producer Electricite de France SA. The government sold 52% of the company at the top of the marketed price range for institutional investors. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire hailed a spectacular success that boosts the appeal of Paris as a financial ce
Nov 24, 2019, 8:21 am - Lottery News

France sells its lottery for $2 billionNews Story
France will bank 1.8 billion euros (US$2 billion) from selling down its stake in the country's lottery operator, according to the final price set on Wednesday in a listing that will serve as a test for France's privatization push. President Emmanuel Macron's pro-business government kicked off the biggest wave of privatizations in over a decade with the initial public offering (IPO) of Francaise des Jeux (FDJ), the organization that operates the country's lottery. It is seeking to raise money
Nov 22, 2019, 9:19 am - Lottery News

Australian man wins lotto jackpot twiceNews Story
A Melbourne, Australia, man is busy counting more than $46 million after he won the top prize in Oz Lotto twice. The St Albans man had forgotten he had two entries in Tuesday's $70 million draw, each marked with the same numbers. I'm speechless. I can't believe it, he told officials, who alerted him to his double bounty. Both tickets had the same marked numbers which he'd been playing for 30 years. I play every week. I have always marked my entries, but I have never chosen the numb
May 6, 2019, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Australian man wins $23 million lotto draw — twiceNews Story
A Melbourne, Australia, man is $46.6 million richer after winning the lotto not once, but twice. The blue-collar worker from St Albans in the city's north-west was stunned after he was informed that two of the three winning entries for the $70 million Oz Lotto prize on Tuesday night were registered to him. The man had marked both entries with the same numbers, which he has been doing for three decades. When we reached out to the division one winner from Melbourne to let him know he'd w
Mar 27, 2019, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Two Mexico lotteries set to mergeNews Story
In a bid to reverse its deficit Mexican lottery La Loter a Nacional para la Asistencia P blica (Lotenal) will merge with the other state lottery Pron sticos para la Asistencia P blica (Pron sticos). Lotenal which owes $540m in back taxes will merge with Pron sticos as it responds to the challenge set by President Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador, said the agency's director, Ernesto Prieto Ortega. It is a question of this decentralized body returning to the purpose for which it was founded in 1
Mar 11, 2019, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Jamaican lottery winner wears 'Scream' mask to hide identityNews Story
A lottery winner in Jamaica who seemingly wanted to remain anonymous chose quite the mask to conceal his face. Dressed in a mask of Ghostface a character in the Scream movies with a signature white face and long, wide-opened mouth the winner, only identified as A. Campbell, collected his winnings of roughly $158,400,000 in Jamaican dollars, which equates to over $1,171,400 in U.S. currency. Campbell, according to the Jamaica Star, became sick when he found out he won the Super Lotto in Nov
Feb 12, 2019, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

Mom wins largest individual Powerball in Australian lottery historyNews Story
A mom from Sydney won Australia's biggest individual prize in history on Thursday, cashing out with more than AU$107 million (US$76.7 million). The Lott, Australia's official lotteries website, said in a statement that the 40-something winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, wasn't sure what was going on when officials called to tell her the big news. In fact, the winner initially thought she had won $107,000. Oh my god, $107,000! That's amazing! Then came the news that her winning we
Jan 19, 2019, 11:36 am - Lottery News

Swiss lotto draw chaos denies jackpot winner millionNews Story
A Swiss man won a million and then lost it on Saturday, when a televised Swiss lotto draw went chaotically wrong. For Andreas B rkli it would have been a lottery dream come true, when his name was pulled out of a drum and announced by German singer Herbert Gr nemeyer. Swiss public TV channel SRF apologised after declaring him the winner, explaining that a mistake had been made due to technical problems. A new draw will be made and the winner will find out after Christmas. Swiss websi
Jan 1, 2019, 10:41 pm - Lottery News

$2.7 billion El Gordo Christmas 2018 lottery drawing held in SpainNews Story
Includes video report Those holding ticket number 03347 struck it rich Saturday when they won the top prize in Spain's famous Christmas lottery. The lottery, known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, dished out 2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) in prize money this year. The top prize for a winning ticket was 400,000 euros ($455,000), but there were many smaller prizes. Here the people are celebrating a lot, it's the first time that the top prize for the Christmas lottery has fallen here, Luis Sori
Dec 23, 2018, 5:04 pm - Lottery News