Lotto punters strike it rich in Luck

The El Gordo lottery boasts the biggest total payout in the world. Photo /Thinkstock

A town called Luck produced more than $26 million worth of winners in Spain's $4 billion Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo (The Fat One). A shop in Sort - the Catalan word for luck - in the foothills of the Pyrenees sold tickets that netted €15 million ($26.4 million) in the lottery, which boasts the biggest total payout in the world. The shop, La Bruixa d'Or (the Golden Witch) sells more tickets than any outlet in Spain because of the name of the town and the fact it has stocked winning tickets several times in the past decade. Prizes totalling €2.3 billion were distributed to several thousand winners.