The luck of the Christmas lottery has traveled this Sunday from the Teatro Real in Madrid to Logroño with El Gordo, the first and authentic, since the grand prize has been sung twice with an interval of just half an hour between them. in a draw with other surreal and supportive moments.
“It was a matter of nerves; we can assure you that there is only one Gordo ball,” Loterías explained to EFE, before offering the minutes to anyone who wanted to check it and influence the many controls that the balls pass and the entire process. in general.
The person responsible for the mistake was the young Yadira Kinde, who excused herself to the head of the table after singing the 4 million euros with: “A boy told me to sing it.” According to Loterías, everything has been due to the way in which children rehearse: repeating a thousand euros several times and, immediately afterwards, giving way to one of the big ones.
It was one of the few details of the draw, along with a somewhat hard crank that had to be repaired so that the balls would flow more quickly and a nice “meow” that one of the children let out when trying to sketch one of those mythical “thousand euros”.
The prolegomena have flowed as always, with the constitution of the tables and the review of the 100,000 numbers to be drawn, deposited in two batches through that hopper that has descended resplendently on the large bass drum as in one of the great operatic productions of this scenery.
Although for the star of the day, the Gordo ball, received among enthusiastic applause like a ‘prima donna’ before being introduced into the prize drum, after which the draw has started, ten minutes behind what was stipulated. , with the parade of the ‘lucky children’, the students of the San Ildefonso school in Madrid, and 64,931 as the first number sung.
This year there has been little opportunity to doze off in the seats because one of the 13 special balls has arrived practically every half hour. In fact, after just six minutes the first special prize, a fifth of 6,000 euros, has jumped to the tenth for 37,876.
The third prize was not long in coming either, which went to 11,840 shortly before 10 in the morning, sung by Ainhoa Rosero and Axiel Kyron Abas already in the second table.
The real Gordo, 72,480, came out around 11:30 a.m., sung by Piero Rai Chávez and Alisce Ríos, who shortly before had also sung a fourth prize for 48,020 and a fifth for 45,456.
However, the one that has been most difficult to ask for has been the second prize, 40,014, which did not arrive until 1:30 p.m., just 15 minutes from the end, a moment chosen by many of those who had so conscientiously fought for their place. at Real to abandon it and wish each other luck for next year.
Among them, a lucky arrival from Almansa (Albacete) who in turn found out from her seat that her boyfriend, a native of Camas (Seville), had lost a pinch of that second prize in a tenth shared between several friends . “For a trip,” she told EFE, still incredulous but happy.