Of record. This has been the victory with which Rafa Castaño has won the largest jackpot in the history of the ‘Pasapalabra’ program, 2,272,000 euros. But not only have these been dizzying figures, but it has also achieved complete the famous rosco test matching the 25 words that make it up from A to Z consecutively and in just 179 seconds. The Sevillian contestant has made history and has managed to have (almost) all of Spain in maximum tension pending who would win the expected jackpot of the program, if he or his battle partner Orestes. With this victory, Rafa Castaño joins the historic list of all the contest jackpot winners. We review all of them.

Following the return of the ‘Pasapalabra’ program to what was its home of origin, Atresmedia and ITV Studios, after premiering for the first time in the year 2000, have been many contestants who have managed to win the final candy of the pot in the form of thousands and millions of euros from the final test of the rosco program. It was in 2012 when the legendary César Garrido’s life changed as a result of winning the 1,524,000 euro jackpot from the program. After him, Juan Pedro Gómez would win a slightly higher jackpot in 2013, 1,674,000 euros. After managing to answer the 25 questions correctly after only 24 editions of attempts, the contestant, who was unemployed after four years, saw the light again.

It was the turn of a woman Paz Herrera, the winner of the 1,310,000 euros of the final rosco in 2014 after 141 programs. From winning 350,000 euros after completing the donut of the program, to being head of the GEO of the National Police years later, this is how the life of police officer Luis Esteban passed after competing in the program in 2015. At only 28 years old , David Leo, the poet and writer from Malaga who has won several literature awardsmanaged to embroider a rosco full of successes that led him to win the total figure of 1,886,000 euros in October 2016.

With a slightly lower boat, the 45-year-old Murcian contestant Antonio Ruiz became in 2017, who after 126 programs managed to win a jackpot of 1,164,000 euros. Life changed for ‘Fran Pasalabra’, known as that among viewers of the program, who “went from buying 4 or 5 books a month to 6 or 7” after winning the jackpot of 1,542,000 euros. Sofía Álvarez was the Bilbao doctor who managed to find the 25th hit in the donut test and win 466,000 euros in 2018 after intense duels with her rival Marco Antonio Marcos. He longest-lived contestant in the show’s history With 250 editions behind him, Pablo Díaz managed to hit the letter that would give him victory and make him take the 1,800,000 euro donut jackpot into his pockets in 2021.

And the day of Rafa Castaño arrived, March 16, 2023, the date that would mark a milestone in the history of ‘Pasapalabra’. The success of the word ‘zabro’, was the one that led the contestant to win the jackpot of 2,272,000 euros, exceeding the historical mark of amounts delivered by the program. It only took him 179 seconds to complete an adrenaline donut of which the Treasury takes half of the total amount.