Extra fat lottery drawing planned July 2 with top prize of ¢125 million
Shades of Christmas. The agency that runs the national lotteries said Tuesday that it will order up another fat one for July 2.
The Christmas “gordito” or fat one is a tradition, but the Junta de Protección Social de San José says it will give everyone a chance to win 125 million colons, the top prize. That’s about $244,000. There will be two top winners and a series of lesser prizes.Each full lottery ticket of 10 pieces will cost 6,000 colons or $11.72. Favorite numbers can be purchased by the piece, too. Each ticket carries a two-digit number and a three digit series number. The numbers are drawn from a roulette-type basket in public.
The junta provides funding for a number of social agencies, and the legal lottery faces strong competition from neighborhood numbers runners.
The surprise fat lottery is seen as a way for the junta to increase its bottom line.