In Dec 2008 eLottery added the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, giving participants globally a immensely improved opportunity of sharing in this huge Spanish lotto prize fund.
If its the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, allow me to highlight simply how important this lotto is to the big majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery 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 ninety-eight% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each and every Christmas.
There are a couple of basic reasons why lots of Spanish subjects join in the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw.
Firstly, there is the inducement of the biggest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lotto game - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are more than 13 thousand money prizes to be won. Finally, the probability of collecting a cash prize on the Christmas lotto draw is a highly feasible - one in six.
With the amount of interest that is afforded to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a great deal of people are unaware that there are five additional Spanish Lotto draws every year as well. These lotto games happen in May, July, January and November and March. Despite the fact that these 5 lotto games don’t feature the tremendous prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are big nevertheless, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred and sixty six million Euros. Plus, these lotto games offer virtually 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus betting odds of picking up a cash prize of an staggering 1 in 3.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery functions in an unusual way to nearly all other worldwide drawings. A full lotto ticket ‘billete’ is really dear, costing 200 Euros. However, these lotto tickets are divided up into 10 ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.
When buying your lottery tickets you have the choice of buying 1 decimo, a complete lottery ticket, or a share of a ticket. If you don’t purchase the whole ticket, somebody else will purchase the rest of your lottery ticket. E.g., if you purchase two decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and someone else purchases five and your lotto ticket wins 1000 Euros, and then you will receive two hundred Euros, three hundred Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying a whole lotto ticket, it is not unusual for households and acquaintances to incorporate their lottery money and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).