Paksukainen

Paksukainen (English: The Fat One) is a Dryicoran annual lottery based on the Spanish. Established in 1966, it is played similarly to the Spanish draw, and is broadcast every year on 22 December on DLO 1.

Ticket numbers and prizes
As with the Spanish version, players are given five-digit numbers from 00000 to 99999, in x series of tickets (where x is the number of series sold that calendar year). For the 2023 draw, 80 series were printed, for a potential 800 000 tickets available at 1 000 Kr each.

Each ticket seen as a collection of 10 identical sub-tickets at 100 Kr each. Each sub-ticket earns 10% of the prize won by any ticket it is part of. These can be further split into "shares", wherein organisations, businesses, office staff, charities, for example, share each each ticket, with the amount paid and share given written on a piece of paper. This is a binding agreement that any win on the ticket will be shared out to those who take a share in the ticket.

A common variation is to have a minigame played for a few extra kronor, where various workplace sweepstakes link up across the company or different branches of charities link up nationwide, for example, where those buying a share pay an extra donation and the player who wins the biggest prize in the game wins all the money put in (or multiple winners split the pot).

Charities often attach a transaction fee (a donation) to their prize as a way of raising extra funds, and in exchange it often costs less to play a charity's side game.

For example, a workplace sweepstake takes a sub-ticket and workers each buy a 10% share at 15 Kr (10 Kr for the share, and 5 Kr for the minigame). A charity game's sub-ticket may be divided into 10% shares at 10 Kr each, but play 2 Kr for the minigame and a 2 Kr donation.

Prize amounts
For 2023:

Draw
The draw itself occurs in Honganiemi with audiences allowed to attend. As per tradition in the Spanish lottery, all balls are put on show for a week beforehand so the public can check their ball is in the lottery (though this is nowadays a formality). Members of the public who attend often turn up in lottery-related fancy dress, and occasionally outstanding efforts can receive a prize (an oft-cited example is a lady from Garkule in 1984 who dressed up as a ball machine, impressing the lottery chief so much he gave her 1 000 Kr on the spot).

Two large spherical cages are used to draw. One contains 100 000 wooden balls, with 00000 through to 99999 on it. The smaller cage has 1 009 wooden balls, each with a prize in Kronor and each signifying a prize to be drawn out:


 * 1 ball for Paksukainen
 * 1 ball for Kakkonen
 * 1 ball for Kolmas
 * 2 balls for Neljäs
 * 4 balls for Vihdes
 * 1 000 balls for Pieni

A winner will always be paid to a winning five-digit number of every series, so winners of 57280 (the winning number in 2022) received 40 000 000 Kr each. A ball is taken out of each sphere at one time, with one person announcing the number and the other the prize. The draw is usually done on the afternoon of 22 December and takes up DLO 1's daytime schedule from around 13:00 until 18:00.

Those who get their ticket reimbursed often re-enter it for the draw on 6 January, the Loppiaisen lotto.