Do You Favour the Spanish National Lottery or the Euro Lottery
On December 2008 elotto brought the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, affording players globally a immensely improved opportunity of sharing in this tremendous Spanish lottery prize fund.
If its the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, allow me to highlight simply how all-important this lottery is to the wide majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with enormous involvement generated by the Christmas draw each year. It’s a fact that ninety-eight per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto every Christmas.
There are a couple of underlying reasons why so many Spanish nationals join in the Christmas Elgordo lottery draw.
Firstly, there is the inducement of the biggest lottery prize fund of any worldwide lottery game – with over 2 Billion Euros! Second, there are more than 13,000 money prizes to be won. Finally, the probability of accumulating a money prize on the Christmas draw are a highly feasible – one : six.
With the amount of interest that is dedicated to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of people are oblivious that there are 5 extra Spanish Lottery draws annually too. These lotto games take place on November, March, May, July and January. While these 5 lotto games do not feature the whopping prize fund of the Christmas lottery draw, they are big all the same, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. In addition, these games provide almost three times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus odds of picking up a cash prize of an awesome 1 in 3.
The Christmas Spanish lottery functions in an unusual way to virtually all other world-wide drawings. A whole lottery ticket ‘billete’ is really costly, costing two hundred Euros. However, these tickets are broken up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.
When buying your tickets you have the option of buying one decimo, a complete lottery ticket, or a part of a lottery ticket. If you do not purchase the entire ticket, someone else will buy the remainder of your lotto ticket. For example, when you purchase two decimos, somebody else purchases 3 decimos and someone else purchases five and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, and then you will receive 200 Euros, 300 Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying a full lotto ticket, it is not unusual for families and friends to amalgamate their lotto cash and all buy a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).
