Your El Gordo 101
When you first come across the El Gordo Lottery, a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, you will definitely want to know more. Promising payouts up to 2.6 billion Euros, the El Gordo Lottery offers one of the richest jackpots worldwide. And neither is this the lottery’s only claim to fame! With over 13,000 prizes available, your odds of winning something work out to around one in every six. Not bad if you hold it against what competing lotteries will give. There is one draw each month held by the Euromillions Euro lottery. But three months a year boast special drawings for grander prizes. To be precise: January’s “El Nio”, the summer “San Ildefonso”, and the Christmas “El Gordo”with the Xmas El Gordo draw being the richest and most popular of the 12.
In an atypical approach to draws, the balls employed by the El Gordo lottery draw display five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. The system employs two bowls, with one used to decide the winning ticket, while the second decides the amount. To enter the draw, your first option is a full ticket, known as a “serie”. The other option is cheaper; called a “décimo” which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Both serie and decimo have an equal chance to win, but of course their share of the payout varies according to what you spend at the start. That’s why many people playing the El Gordo lotto instead use the e-lottery system. This system promises a prize for everyone who takes part. All you do is buy into the Euromillions Euro Lotto syndicate and you’ll be divided into teams. Each team is assigned an identifying number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw being used to identify the team which wins the payoff. This money is divided equally among the members. After that, subscriptions are taken for the syndicate ready for the next drawing.
Some players are concerned when they hear that they have to share these big payouts. The thing to remember is there’s still a lot of money to share out when the total prize was more than two and a half billion Euros. No reason to worry playing by e-lottery - you’ll win something during each drawing, and a share in the syndicate is a most cost-effective way to play. The e-lottery is the truly smart way to go…
