In December 2008 e-Lottery added the El Gordo to its product range giving individuals worldwide a vastly improved chance of sharing in this colossal Spanish lottery prize fund.
If this is the first time you have heard about the El Gordo lottery, allow me to point out just how big a deal this lotto is to a large percentage of Spaniards. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a long time with enormous appeal generated by the Christmas draw every year. The excitement is such that, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery each Christmas.
There are a number of underlying reasons why so many Spaniards join in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the biggest lottery prize fund of any global lottery - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are more than 13,000 cash prizes on offer. Lastly, the likelihood of scooping a cash prize in the Christmas draw is a highly achievable 1 in 6.
With the amount of interest that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of people are oblivious to the fact that there are 5 extra El Gordo draws each year as well. These games take place in January, March, May, July and November. Although these 5 games do not boast the huge prize fund of the Christmas game, they are substantial nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. In addition, these draws offer nearly 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an incredible 1 in 3.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery works in a different way to most lottery games. A complete ticket 'billete' is very pricey, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are split up into ten 'decimos' (tenths) each costing 20 Euros. When buying your tickets you have the option of buying a single decimo, a whole ticket, or a share of a ticket. If you do not purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. For example, if you obtain two decimos, somebody else purchases three and another buys five decimos and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, then you will collect 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros in that order. Owing to the expense of buying a whole ticket, it is very common for families and friends to combine their lotto cash and each person purchase a single 'decimo' (tenth).
The probability of winning a cash prize in the El Gordo lottery are excellent but if you decide to play as a member of one of e-Lottery's El Gordo syndicates you will experience a 20 times better chance of sharing cash prizes in every draw.
Unveil the full benefits of playing the El Gordo as a member of an e-Lottery syndicate and revel in the excitement of this colossal Spanish National lottery.