It is no secret that Halloween is a holiday that we Spaniards have already adopted as our own. It is celebrated on the last day of October, with less than two months to go until the Christmas Lottery draw, and many people have in mind that special number of the tenth lottery ticket in which they have placed their hopes.
Many take advantage of Halloween to buy those numbers that have scary connotations in order to attract luck for the draw on 22 December. One of those cursed numbers is 13, curiously, one of the most demanded at Christmas despite the fact that only in 2016 did the Gordo end in that number.
Some people look to the Japanese culture in which the numbers 4 and 9 are considered to attract misfortune. This tradition is due to the way both numbers sound. The sound of the 4 is reminiscent of the word death while the sound of the 9 is similar to the word suffering. Well, we are here to order tenths with these endings.
Other of the most demanded numbers are those tenths ending in 666, the number of the devil or the antichrist. It is likely that if you start looking for them you will find that they are already sold out, but we still have some on our website. In fact, those of you who visit our lottery administration - we are at number 51 Hermanos Felgueroso Avenue in Gijón - will see a poster on the counter where we offer you tickets that we call 'el feo', 'los patitos', 'el bajito', 'los repetidos' and 'el capicúa'. Can you imagine which one is the most successful? In this post we remember when the Gordo fell on 55.666. Will it be repeated this year?
And what about you? Will you take advantage of Halloween to get that tenth ticket with a scary number?
