In 1,379, the first prize of the New Year's Eve Gordo, falls entirely in El Vendrell

BarcelonaEl Vendrell has sold out the 1,379, the first prize of the New Year's Eve Gordo which is held on the last day of the year. In total, seven million euros have been distributed for the 35 series sold from a tobacco shop on Café street in the capital of Baix Penedès. The winners will receive 200,000 euros for each tenth played. The winning combination proves, once again, that luck does not understand ugly or low numbers and that all the balls in the drums have the same chance. "It is a number that not everyone buys because it has a zero in front, and it is one of those that you would not normally take, but sometimes those numbers that we are not used to buying win," explained Marc Latorre, the owner of the business along with his mother. Rosa Sabater has been in charge of the premises for forty years and had never distributed such a big prize. "I am semi-retired, but I still work a little and the other day, jokingly, I said: 'I will retire the day I give the Gordo'," she exclaimed. For the moment, part of the omen has come true.

In this raffle, El Vendrell has also scraped part of one of the fourth prizes, which it has shared with Palau-solità i Plegamans. It is the 15,376, which means 10,000 euros per tenth played. In Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Girona they also shared the luck through the number 92,574, endowed with 65,000 euros for each ticket. In total, 16 tickets of that number have been sold. As for the third prize, to which 30,000 euros correspond, it goes to the number 73,762, sold in Parets del Vallès and online. The Grossa draw has also distributed two fourth prizes of 10,000 euros per ticket, which have gone to the numbers 29,181, sold in Cambrils and Campdorà, and 15,376, which has been distributed in Palau-solità i Plegamans, El Vendrell and also through the internet.

The three fifth prizes of 5,000 euros per tenth have fallen to the 34,006, which has been won in Prat de Llobregat and Súria; the 20,005, sold in Barcelona, and the 68,675, distributed in Gelida.

After previous editions of this Generalitat lottery with low sales, all available numbers have been sold out. In El Vendrell, half of the 14 million euros distributed in this raffle, in which 273,242 tickets have been awarded, have remained.