I Thought the Euro Lottery Was Good! Tell Me More about the Spanish Lotto
In December 2008 eLottery added the Spanish National Lottery to its product range, giving participants globally a vastly bettered chance of partaking in this whopping Spanish lotto prize fund.
If it’s the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, let me highlight simply how all-important this lotto is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a public obsession in Spain for a very long time with huge involvement generated by the Christmas lottery draw every year. Believe it or not 98 per cent of the population play this Spanish National lottery each and every Christmas.
There are a couple of primary sound reasons why lot’s of Spanish nationals join in the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw.
First Off, there is the inducement of the biggest lotto prize fund of any world-wide lottery game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Second, there are in excess of 13,000 money prizes to be won. Finally, the chance of accumulating a cash prize in the Christmas lotto draw is a highly achievable – one in six.
With the amount of interest that is presented to the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw, a lot of people are unaware that there is five additional Spanish Lotto draws every year too. These lottery games occur in January, March, May, July and November. While these five lottery games do not feature the tremendous prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are big nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Plus, these games offer almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw and betting odds of picking up a money prize of an splendid 1 : 3.
The Spanish Christmas Lotto works in a different way to nearly all other world lotteries. A whole lotto ticket ‘billete’ is very dear, costing 200 Euros. However, these lottery tickets are broken up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros apiece.
When buying your lottery tickets you have the option of buying 1 decimo, a complete lotto ticket, or a part of a lottery ticket. If you don’t purchase the full lottery ticket, somebody else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. E.g., if you buy two decimos, somebody else purchases 3 decimos and someone else purchases 5 and your lotto ticket wins one thousand Euros, and then you will collect two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying a whole ticket, it is not unusual for households and friends to amalgamate their lotto cash and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).
