My Guide to the Spanish El Gordo Lotto

The Elgordo Lottery is part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, but if you don’t know anymore than that there’s a great deal more to find out. The lottery is well-known for payouts that number amongst the richest around the world - payouts as high as 2.6 billion Euros. Nor is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. With over 13,000 prizes being offered, your chances of winning a prize work out to around one per every six. When compared with the prizes being offered by competing lotteries, it has to be said that Elgordo’s offerings are actually rather good. Once a month the Euromillions Euro lotto holds its draw. But three months a year are dedicated to special drawings for yet bigger prizes. Richest of all these draws is “fatso” “Elgordo” which is held around Christmas, while the other special drawings occur in January (”El Nio”) and summer (”San Ildefonso”).

In an atypical approach to draws, the balls required by the Elgordo lotto sport five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw one ball is drawn from a bowl to determine the winning number and another ball is drawn from the second bowl to find the prize value.

Now, if you would like to have a chance to win you can get a full ticket known as a “serie”. The other option is cheaper; called a “décimo” valued at one tenth of a full ticket. Neither choice is particularly cheap, however, and equally neither has better odds of being a winner. As a result many players of the Elgordo lotto use the e-lottery system. The e-lottery system guarantees a prize for everyone who takes part. You’re automatically assigned a team following your choice to buy into the Elgordo Lottery syndicate. Each team is assigned a number from zero to nine when the drawing is made, the final digit of the winning number determines which team receives the prize. An even distribution of the spoils among the members comes next. In time for next month’s draw, the syndicate takes subscriptions once again and the e-lottery continues.

It is common to wonder whether it’s worth sharing these prizes. But when you take into account how much more than two and a half billion Euros really is, there’s still plenty for everybody. You’ll find the syndicate is far more cost effective, and with the knowledge that you’ll win something in each draw, you don’t have to worry about losing all the time. E-lottery is the smart way to go…