Lottery Administration No. 3 in Ibiza, Eivisort, located at 25 Avenida Isidor Macabich in Ibiza Town, distributed around €885,000 in prizes from the Christmas Lottery this Monday. While this is by no means a negligible amount, it came very close to making history, making that figure seem almost insignificant.
“We were one number away from selling the first prize. We had 79,492 — we were only missing the ten”, explained its administrator, José Antonio Arias. Oh, if only that 9 had been a 3.
Even so, the outlet handed out a significant number of smaller prizes. There were €200,000 in prizes for numbers ending in 93 (such as the third prize, 90,693); another €200,000 for tickets ending in 48 (like the second prize, 70,048); €225,000 from the pedreas of the first prize; and around €260,000 from tickets ending in 2, the termination of the first prize. It also narrowly missed a fifth prize: number 18,669, as the outlet had sold 11,669.
In total, lottery administrations in Ibiza and Formentera distributed more than €3 million in prizes, pending more precise figures from some outlets. For example, the termination (units and tens) of the second prize, 70,048, was sold at Lottery Administration No. 1, located on Antoni Palau de la Marina street in Ibiza Town. Its administrator, Juan Mayans, recalled what was once known as “five for one” — five pesetas for one — which today translates into €100 per tenth.
According to Mayans, the parish of Jesús sold all 198 series of the number ending in 48. At €1,000 per series, this resulted in a total of €198,000 distributed among local ticket holders.
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