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The Fat One of Christmas is the most traditional draw in Spain. It is an habit that everybody plays lottery on December 22.
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Each spaniard spent an average amount of 73,00 euros in the draw that shares most prizes all over the world , in 2005 tickets with a value of 2.023 million euros will reached.
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Features of The Fat One of Christmas:
- It cashes more prizes than any other draw in the world.
- It has the bigger number of prized tickets (13.334).
- Safety; the draw is managed by the Spanish goverment.
- Maximum chances to win a prize.
- The prizes are paid inmediatly, in an unique pay, free of taxes for life..
- 70 per cent of the emission is assigned for prizes.
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| The draw |
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| Recount of the bowls and closing of the saloon |
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December 21 will be public at 23:00, the exam and recount of the number bowls and prizes bowls that are going to be in The Fat Of Christmas.
This balls could be checked by the assistants if they want it, with a previous request and the president's authorization.
When the recount is finished, everybody leaves the saloon and it is secured with interior latches all its access except the platform door, which keys are kept by 3 different claveros, once closed and sealed.
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| Draw´s Celebration |
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The saloon is opened at at 8.00 the day 22, and everybody could get in, the only limitation is the capacity of the local.
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At 8.30 is constituted the table that presides and authorizes the draw. After this, when the balls are showed to the public, the bowls are transported mechanically by the tolva, where they were deposited previously, to the bowl.
This operation is made with number balls and with prizes balls. At last, the bowls are closed and with a sign of the president they are turned over simultaneously.
A boy or a girl of St. Ildefonso´s school extracts a ball from the bowl of numbers and another children at the same time, took another of the bowl of prizes, both are sang by another two children, that inserts the balls in wires.
These wires are joined in a table untill they contain 2 hundred balls of each type, being properly closed in front of the president´s table with the agree of the president and the auditor.
The Fat of Christmas finishes when there are no balls in the prizes bowl.
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