Everyone knows if you don't play the lottery, you can't win the lottery. But a man in Sodeto, Spain is really struggling under the weight of that brutal truth after his entire town won a $950 million lottery jackpot without him.

Costis Mitsotakis said he was overlooked when the Sodeto homemakers’ association went around collecting $26 from each family in town and from 17 nearby villages, to put toward the El Gordo -- the fat one -- Christmas lottery, which has been held since 1812, The New York Times reported.

According to the publication, the town is made up of farmers and unemployed construction workers who were struggling in the current European economic crisis. But thanks to the lucky windfall, each participant walked away with at least $130,000 -- with same families netting millions.

Mitsotakis didn't completely miss out on benefiting from his neighbors' winnings. According to the Times, the filmmaker finally found a buyer for a piece of area land he was selling -- a neighbor with cash in hand.