There are only a few hours left for the Royal Theater of Madrid open its doors to celebrate the traditional Christmas Lottery draw.
Starting at 9.00 hours It is expected that the balls will start to come out of the drums and the children of San Ildefonso sing their peculiar song to sing all the prizes, including the long-awaited Christmas Gordo.
The Extraordinary Christmas Giveaway has an approximate duration of three and a half hours and it is done by him traditional system, that is to say, a hype for numbers and another for prizes. In fact, yesterday, Tuesday, the counting of the balls of the numbers and prizes was made publicly so that, in this way, anyone can make sure that their number is within the hype.
The theater will open its doors at 8.00 hours to allow free entry to spectators who are assigned seats in strict order of arrival. As happened last year, in this edition of State Lotteries and Betting, a rigorous covid protocol has once again been implemented and only a few lucky ones will be able to enter the stalls to enjoy the draw live.
Children of San Ildefonso
The draw will begin with one of the children from San Ildefonso extracting a ball from the pot of numbers (100,000 balls) and another child extracting another from the pot of prizes (1,807 balls). The balls are made of boxwood and have the same weight and size: 3 grams and 18.8 mm respectively.
If by mistake two balls fall at the same time and one is on top of the other, the one below will always be called first. Once the balls have been called, they insert them into the wires from table. These wires are grouped in a table (where the balls are inserted once called and in order of departure) until they contain 200 balls of each kind arranged in 20 wires with 20 prize balls or 20 numbers each. Thus, until there is no ball left in the prize pot, in this way the draw is terminated.
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Reference-www.elperiodico.com