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The Xmas lottery went on sale Wednesday all over the country. If you want 18 or 88, better get busy and the odds are only 100,000 to 1 that you will take home the top prize of  ¢8,7 millon. ($17,900)

Sunday, December 18 is the drawing, a piece costs 500 colones  the whole ticket 20,000 colones.

Words to know:
El sorteo - The drawing
El Gordo - The Fat One - the Christmas lottery is the largest prize of the year.
Entero - The whole ticket of 40 fractions
Fracción - a part of the ticket - you would win 1/40th of the first prize for each fraccion you bought.

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