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Key facts about “El Gordo”– Spain’s Christmas Draw shares 2.25 billion euros in prizes. - The chances of winning something are 5.3% 1st prize: €4,000,000 2nd prize… 22/12/2011
‘Millonarios, hombre!’ Village fetes Spain’s El GordoThe excitement was palpable in Spain for the result of ‘El Gordo’ – the Fat One – the traditional Christmas lottery. Who had won the top prize? The answer… 22/12/2011
Back in the Day: the world’s first crossword!December 21, 1913 The New York World newspaper publishes the first ever example of a crossword. The diamond-shaped puzzle (see picture) was created by… 20/12/2011
Back in the Day: machine beats chess grandmasterMay 11, 1997. IBM’s Deep Blue wins the deciding sixth game of a chess match against Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer had ever beaten a reigning world… 10/05/2011
Now Scrabble’s got ‘innit’ in itIt is not going down well with language purists but the list of words that are acceptable in Scrabble has been extended to include modern slang. The first… 09/05/2011
Lotto fever soars in ItalyIt is being called Lotto-Tourism. Hundreds of Germans, Austrians and other foreigners have been racing to Italy by plane, car and train to buy tickets for the… 13/08/2009
Education & business find uses for Serious GamesComputer games are beginning to break out from their console and entertainment world, and finding more constructive applications in the worlds of business and… 24/11/2008
