The Elgordo Lottery is a part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, but if you don’t know anymore than that that’s really a bit thin. The lottery is widely known for payouts that can match the biggest wherever in the world you look – payouts up to 2.6 billion Euros. And yet there’s more. This lottery puts more than 13,000 prizes up for grabs, making for a winner for every six tickets. When you consider the prizes being featured by other lottos, that’s certainly not bad.
In the Euromillions Euro lotto, one draw is made every month. Bigger prizes can be won at special drawings held during three months a year. The most substantial of all these lotteries is “fat cat” “Elgordo” which is held around Christmas, while the other special lotteries are set for January – “El Nio” – and in summer (“San Ildefonso”). Unusually for lottery systems, the balls required by the Elgordo lotto sport five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. One ball apiece is drawn from two bowls; the first draw determines the winner, the second the prize value.
Thinking of entering this draw? You have two choices; the first is that you can get a “serie” or a full ticket. Also available is a “décimo”, worth one tenth of a full ticket. This is your other option. These options have the same chance of winning, but obviously the payout varies according to how much you spent to begin with. That’s why many people playing the Elgordo lottery instead use the e-lottery scheme.
If you buy into the e-lottery system, you are guaranteed a prize. You’re automatically pooled into a team when you buy in to the Elgordo Lottery syndicate. Each team is assigned a number from 0-9 when the drawing is held, the final digit of the winning number identifies which team will receive the money. The prize is then divided among the team. Afterward, subscriptions are sold ready for the draw held next month. It is natural to worry about whether it would be worth sharing these jackpots. The thing to remember is there’s still a lot of money to go around when the total prize was 2.6 billion Euros. As you’re guaranteed to win each month, the syndicate system is both less of a worry and more affordable. It’s the smarter strategy for the Euromillions Euro lottery…
