When the time comes to buy the lottery, there are all kinds of rituals with which we try to align our stars to be winners. Some are fixated on buying their tickets in a specific place and even doing it (or not doing it) on a certain day and at a certain time. There will be those who will go shopping wearing their lucky clothes or with some kind of amulet in their pocket or around their neck. But, like the vast universe we find ourselves in, the lottery is probability, chance, and chaos .
In the lottery everything depends on the numbers . The multiple possible combinations determine who will end up bathed in champagne and who will have to wait until the next attempt . Perhaps to create some kind of link with our luck, it is very common that combinations are chosen that coincide with special dates or numbers that transmit good vibrations . And although the probability that one figure or another will appear is the same , throughout the history of the Extraordinary Christmas Draw some figures have had more stars than others.
For years, the 5 is the ending that has been awarded the most times in the Christmas Lottery with a total of 32 times . It is closely followed by 4 and 6 (27 times each). The least repeated was 1 , followed by 2 and 9 . If we talk about two-digit endings, none of the following numbers has been the end of the grand prize: 09, 10, 21, 25, 31, 34, 41, 42, 43, 51, 54, 59, 67, 78 and 82 . 85 has been repeated seven times (1841, 1858, 1867, 1868, 1900, 1915 and 2005), becoming the most common two-digit number in the history of the draw and followed by 57 (six times), 75 and 64 (five times) .
As far as three-digit endings are concerned, the most repeated have been 297, 457 and 515 with three appearances each. They are followed by 094, 098, 400, 452, 640, 704, 758 and 892, having been awarded twice.
Historical curiosities
In the 206 draws held up to 2017 (inclusive), the first prize has corresponded to numbers between zero and 10,000 on 63 different occasions; on 73 occasions to a number between 10,001 and 30,000 and on 71 occasions to a number between 30,001 and 99,999 .
It has also happened that the grand prize has fallen on several occasions by the same number . In 1956 and 1978 , 15,640 was the graceful number that the ‘Gordo’ took, becoming the first number that had been awarded twice. This happened again with 20,297 in 1903 and 2006. The prize has also been given to consecutive numbers such as 13,093 and 13,094 or 53,452 and 53,453 .
