On Dec 2008 e-lottery brought the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, affording participants globally a vastly bettered chance of sharing in this whopping Spanish lottery prize fund.
If it’s the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, allow me to highlight simply how important this lotto is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with immense involvement generated by the Christmas lottery draw each year. It’s a fact that 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.
There are a couple of great reasons why so many Spanish subjects join in the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw.
First, there is the inducement of the largest lottery prize fund of any international lotto game – with over 2 Billion Euros! Second, there are in excess of 13 thousand money prizes to be won. Lastly, the probability of collecting a money prize in the Christmas lotto draw are a highly attainable – one in six.
With the amount of interest that is afforded to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of individuals are oblivious that there is five extra Spanish Lottery draws yearly too. These games occur on May, July, January and November and March. Even though these 5 lotto games don’t feature the enormous prize fund of the Christmas draw, they are sizable all the same, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred and sixty six million Euros. Also, these lotto games provide almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an impressive one : three.
The Christmas Spanish Lottery works in a different way to nearly all other world lotteries. A full ticket ‘billete’ is very dear, costing 200 Euros. However, these lotto tickets are broken up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros apiece.
When purchasing your lotto tickets you have the choice of purchasing 1 decimo, a complete lottery ticket, or a portion of a ticket. If you don’t purchase the full lotto ticket, someone else will buy the remainder of your ticket. For example, if you buy two decimos, someone else buys three decimos and someone else purchases 5 and your ticket wins one thousand Euros, then you will receive 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lottery ticket, it is not unusual for households and friends to united their lottery cash and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.