Spain World Jackpot: Lottery Prize of $3 Billion is World’s Largest

Spain’s $3 billion Christmas lottery jackpot has now become world’s biggest!

Called “El Gordo” (The Fat One), lottery ticket winners hit the Christmas jackpot on Monday, getting 400,000-euro ($490,000) payoffs from a 2.5 billion-euro ($3 billion) pot of cash that will be divided among thousands of ticketholders.

There were 10 top prizes, worth €400,000 each, for ticket number 13437.

The second prize was worth a total of €1.25m and the third prize 500,000.