Some Gripping Facts about the Spanish Lottery
In December 2008 eLottery added the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, affording players globally a vastly bettered opportunity of sharing in this gigantic Spanish lotto prize fund.
If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, allow me to highlight simply how important this lottery is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with massive involvement generated by the Christmas draw every year. Its a fact that 98 per cent of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.
There are a few great sound reasons why so many Spanish nationals join in the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw.
Firstly, there is the inducement of the largest lotto prize fund of any worldwide lotto game – with over 2 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the chance of collecting a money prize in the Christmas draw are a extremely achievable – 1 in 6.
With the quantity of interest that’s devoted to the Christmas Elgordo lotto draw, a good deal of individuals are oblivious that there is 5 extra Spanish Lottery draws yearly as well. These lottery games occur in May, July, January and November and March. Even though these 5 games do not feature the massive prize fund of the Christmas draw, they are sizable nevertheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Also, these lottery games provide almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus odds of picking up a cash prize of an splendid one : three.
The Spanish Christmas Lotto functions in a different way to almost all other worldwide drawings. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is really dear, 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 purchasing one decimo, a complete ticket, or a share of a lottery ticket. If you do not purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your lotto ticket. E.g., when you buy two decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and someone else purchases 5 and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, then you will receive 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of purchasing a full lottery ticket, it is not uncommon for families and acquaintances to incorporate their lottery cash and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.
