In 1379, the first prize of the New Year's Eve lottery fell entirely in El Vendrell

BarcelonaEl Vendrell has sold all 35 winning tickets for the top prize in the New Year's Eve lottery, number 1379. The winning number is drawn on the last day of the year. A total of seven million euros has been distributed across the 35 series sold from a tobacconist's shop on Café Street in the capital of the Baix Penedès region. Winners will receive 200,000 euros for each ticket played. The winning combination demonstrates, once again, that chance doesn't discriminate based on numbers, and that all the balls in the lottery drum have the same chance. "It's a number that not everyone buys because it has a zero in front of it, and it's one you wouldn't normally choose, but sometimes those numbers that we're not used to buying come up," explained Marc Latorre, who owns the shop with his mother. Rosa Sabater has been running the shop for forty years and had never sold such a large winning ticket before. "I'm semi-retired, but I still do a little work, and the other day, jokingly, I said, 'I'll retire the day I win the jackpot,'" she exclaimed. For now, part of that prediction has come true.

In this raffle, El Vendrell also won part of one of the fourth prizes, which it shared with Palau-solità and Plegamans. The winning number was 15,376, worth €10,000 per ticket. Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Girona also shared the good fortune with the number 92,574, worth €65,000 per ticket. A total of 16 tickets with that number were sold. As for the third prize, worth €30,000, it went to the number 73,762, sold in Parets del Vallès and online. The Grossa lottery draw also awarded two fourth prizes of €10,000 per ticket, which went to numbers 29,181, sold in Cambrils and Campdorà, and 15,376, sold in Palau-solità i Plegamans, El Vendrell, and also online. The three fifth prizes of €5,000 per ticket went to number 34,006, sold in Prat de Llobregat and Súria; number 20,005, sold in Barcelona; and number 68,675, sold in Gelida. After previous editions of this Generalitat lottery with low sales, all available tickets were sold. Half of the 14 million euros distributed in this raffle, in which 273,242 tickets won prizes, have stayed in El Vendrell.