I Thought the EuroMillions Was Good! The Spanish Lottery
March 10th, 2009
In Dec 2008 elotto added the Spanish National Lottery to it’s product range, giving participants globally a immensely improved chance of partaking in this enormous Spanish lottery prize fund.
If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, let me highlight just 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 very long time with huge interest generated by the Christmas draw every year. Its a fact that 98 per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto each Christmas.
There are a couple of underlying reasons why lots of Spanish nationals join in the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw.
First, there is the inducement of the biggest lottery prize fund of any world-wide lottery game - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are more than 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Last, the probability of collecting a cash prize on the Christmas draw are a extremely attainable - one : six.
With the amount of interest thats afforded to the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw, a good deal of people are unaware that there are five extra Spanish Lottery draws annually also. These lottery games happen in January, March, May, July and November. Even though these five lotto games don’t feature the large prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are large nevertheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Also, these lotto games provide nearly three times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw and odds of picking up a cash prize of an amazing one : three.
The Christmas Spanish Lotto operates in a different way to almost all other worldwide lotteries. A full ticket ‘billete’ is very costly, costing two hundred Euros. However, these tickets are broken up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros apiece.
When buying your lottery tickets you have the choice of purchasing 1 decimo, a complete lottery ticket, or a part of a lottery ticket. If you don’t buy the entire lotto ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your lottery ticket. For Instance, if you buy two decimos, someone else buys three decimos and somebody else purchases five and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, and then you will receive two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lottery ticket, it is not uncommon for households and acquaintances to united their lottery cash and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.
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