The El Gordo Lottery is a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, but if that’s all you happen to know you definitely need to find out more. The lottery is widely known for jackpots that can match the biggest wherever in the world you look – payouts as high as two point six billion Euros. Even that is not all that’s special here. With more than 13,000 prizes available, the odds of winning something work out to around one in every six. Not bad at all by the standards of the prizes promoted by other major lotteries.
Each month the Euromillions Eurolottery holds one draw. But three months each year have bigger lotteries for grander prizes. The 3 special drawings are held in January, summer, and at Christmas: in order, these are El Nio, San Ildefonso & El Gordo aka “fat cat”. In an atypical approach to draws, the balls required by the El Gordo lotto have five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. The system employs two bowls, with one used to decide the winning ticket, while the second decides the prize value.
Should you want to get in on the action you can buy a full ticket known as a “serie”. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” worth one tenth of a full ticket. These tickets have the same chance to win, but obviously their payout is proportional to which you bought to begin with. For this reason the e-lottery scheme is popular with many Euromillions Euro lotto players. The e-lottery system can guarantee a prize for everyone who takes part. Just buy into the Euromillions Euro Lotto syndicate and you’ll be divided into teams. With each team having a number between 0 and 9, the final digit on the winning number picks the winning team and they take the prize. An equal division of the prize amongst the team comes next. Everyone then subscribes again for the next month’s draw and the cycle begins again. It’s common to worry about whether it’s worth sharing these payoffs. What you have to remember is that when the amount being divided is 2.6 billion Euros, a share works out at a significant return. There’s no reason to worry playing by e-lottery – you’re guaranteed to win a prize during each draw, and on top of that a place in the e-lottery is the more affordable way to play. It’s the best way to play the El Gordo lotto…