Lottery jackpot records have always attracted attention of lottery analysts and players.
It is generally believed that Spain's Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad (Spanish Christmas Lottery) is the world's largest lottery and has the largest first prize jackpot. In 2011 the main jackpot was €720 million, approximately US$939 million using a 24 December 2011 exchange of 1.3048. The total prize pool in 2011 was €1,513 million (US$1,9
The tickets for this lottery have pre-printed 5-digit numbers, with each set of numbers sold multiple times in several so-called "series." For example, a ticket with the number "00009" was printed 180 times under different series numbers in 2011. This results in the jackpot always being split across multiple winners. The 2011 main jackpot of €720 million was paid out as €4 million (approx US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets with the number 58268.
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