Before the technology boom, terminal sales or the possibility of choose number to play Gordolottery buyers toured the administrations in search of the tenth dream. This is how many remained in the windows that ended up being returned.
A administration of Puerto de la Cruzin Tenerifereceived in 2007 an indeterminate number of 06381. The zero in front or the fact that it ended in a digit with little prize in the history of the Christmas Draw made those tickets hang, with nobody to buy them, without anyone I would like them.
At the last minute, as mandated by Lotteries and State Gambling, the consignment of this administration was returned. Not one was sold. And many surely were those who repented.
Three million
On December 22 the Children of San Ildefonso they sang that 06831 like Fat. The first prize of the long-awaited Draw. Between the jubilation of those present in the room and the expectations of all those who were watching the drums at home, the information arrived: Among the places where that number had been recorded was Puerto de la Cruz. But there were no winners. And so the three million euros that would have been distributed thanks to El Gordo were lost to the Island.
The then delegate of THE E in the Islands, Luis de Montis, confirmed that had been rejected “because ugly”, a custom that is still frequent and for which there is already an answer: Everyone enters into the hype. Of course, despite this story of the Gordo that in the end was not, for the State Lotteries and Betting in that year Tenerife continues to be listed as one of the locations graced by the Gordo.