I Thought the Euro Lottery Was Good! Tell Me More about the Spanish Lottery

March 11th, 2009 by Administrator

In Dec 2008 eLottery added the Spanish lottery to its product range, giving participants globally a immensely improved opportunity of sharing in this super Spanish lotto prize fund.

If it’s the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, allow me to highlight just how all-important this lottery is to the big majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a public obsession in Spain for a long time with enormous interest generated by the Christmas lottery draw each year. It’s a fact that ninety-eight per cent of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.

There are a few fundamental reasons why lots of Spanish subjects join in the Christmas Elgordo lottery draw.

First Off, on that point is the inducement of the biggest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lotto game - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of 13 thousand cash prizes to be won. Last, the probability of accumulating a cash prize in the Christmas lotto draw is a extremely attainable - one in six.

With the amount of interest thats afforded to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of individuals are oblivious that there are five extra Spanish Lottery draws each year too. These lotto games happen on January, March, May, July and November. While these five lotto games don’t feature the whopping prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are large nevertheless, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. Plus, these games provide virtually three times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an splendid one : three.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery functions in a different way to almost all other world drawings. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is really costly, costing two hundred Euros. However, these tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros each.

When buying your lotto tickets you have the choice of buying 1 decimo, a complete lotto ticket, or a portion of a lottery ticket. If you don’t purchase the whole lotto ticket, somebody else will buy the rest of your lottery ticket. E.g., if you purchase two decimos, someone else buys 3 decimos and someone else buys 5 and your lotto ticket wins 1000 Euros, then you will receive two hundred Euros, three hundred Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of purchasing a full lotto ticket, it is not unusual for families and friends to united their lottery money and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.

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