I Thought the UK Lotto Was Good! The Spanish Lottery
In December 2008 eLottery added the Spanish National Lottery to its product range, giving players globally a vastly bettered opportunity of sharing in this immense Spanish lotto prize fund.
If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, let me highlight simply how important this lottery is to the vast majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a public obsession in Spain for a very long time with massive involvement generated by the Christmas draw every year. Believe it or not 98 per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto each and every Christmas.
There are a few central sound reasons why so many Spanish nationals join in the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw.
First, there is the inducement of the largest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lotto game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Second, there are in excess of 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the probability of collecting a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a highly achievable – 1 : 6.
With the amount of interest that is devoted to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, lots of individuals are unaware that there is five additional Spanish Lotto draws annually as well. These games occur in January, March, May, July and November. Despite the fact that these five games don’t boast the whopping prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are big however, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. Also, these lottery games provide almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw plus odds of collecting a money prize of an splendid one in three.
The Christmas Spanish Lotto functions in a different way to virtually all other world-wide drawings. A whole lotto ticket ‘billete’ is really dear, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros apiece.
When purchasing your lotto tickets you have the option of purchasing one decimo, a complete ticket, or a part of a lottery ticket. If you don’t buy the whole lottery ticket, somebody else will buy the rest of your lotto ticket. E.g., when you purchase two decimos, somebody else purchases 3 decimos and someone else buys five and your lotto ticket wins one thousand Euros, then you will collect two hundred Euros, three hundred Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying a whole lottery ticket, it is not unusual for households and acquaintances to amalgamate their lotto money and all purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).
