On Dec 2008 e-lotto added the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, affording players globally a vastly bettered chance of sharing in this whopping Spanish lottery prize fund.
If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, let me highlight just how all-important this lotto is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a public obsession in Spain for a long time with tremendous interest generated by the Christmas lottery draw every year. Its a fact that 98 per cent of the population play this Spanish National lottery each and every Christmas.
There are a couple of great reasons why lot’s of Spanish subjects join in the Christmas El Gordo draw.
First Off, there is the inducement of the largest lottery prize fund of any international lotto game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of thirteen thousand money prizes to be won. Lastly, the chance of collecting a cash prize in the Christmas lotto draw is a highly feasible – one : six.
With the quantity of interest that is presented to the Christmas El Gordo lotto draw, lots of people are oblivious that there are 5 extra Spanish Lotto draws yearly as well. These lottery games take place on November, March, May, July and January. Even though these five lotto games do not boast the tremendous prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are big however, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. In addition, these games offer nearly 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus odds of picking up a cash prize of an impressive 1 : 3.
The Christmas Spanish lottery operates in a different way to nearly all other world lotteries. A full lottery ticket ‘billete’ is really dear, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are divided up into 10 ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros each.
When buying your lotto tickets you have the choice of purchasing 1 decimo, a complete ticket, or a portion of a ticket. If you do not buy the entire ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. For example, when you purchase 2 decimos, somebody else buys three decimos and someone else buys five and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, and then you will receive two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lottery ticket, it is not unusual for families and acquaintances to incorporate their lottery money and all purchase a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.