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When we talk about the prize that can touch us playing the Christmas Lotterywe always call it 'Fat', so is he first prize nickname of this famous raffle, but Do you know why it has this name?
Do you know why the Christmas Lottery is called “El Gordo”?
You may think that 'El Gordo' is called that way because of the juicy prize that you can get, there are 4.000.000 euros for the series, so each tenth takes 400.000 euros. But this juicy sum has nothing to do with it, it is something much more curious and with more baggage.
History of this name: “El Gordo”
The history of this nickname takes us back to the XNUMXth century to an illustration of a character whose name was 'The Lottery Fanatic' or 'The Lucky Dwarf'., which was created as advertising for people to buy lottery tickets. In short, it was the image that was given to the lottery to reach a larger audience.
The characteristics of 'The Fanatic for the Lottery' were its size, since he was short and of course chubby, with a very lottery look, well his clothes were endless balls with lottery numbers. This character became very popular in a very short time and there was even a newspaper in 1851 named 'The Dwarf' in reference to him.
With this sonnet worthy of the time he appeared in the first publication of said newspaper: “Although I was born a dwarf I am not a dwarf, prodigious in knowing lottery, that the game for me is not an arcane, and in cabals that I give you from this day, fixedly, as if put on by hand, the suit you have to see for the life of me".
The nickname could well have stayed in 'the lucky Dwarf', but sooner rather than later The popularity of the character was his bulging figure and this is how the term 'El Gordo' became relevant. So the famous Christmas raffle is sometimes called the fat drawToday there is no way to separate one from the other, if you win the Christmas Lottery, you have won El Gordo.
