The El Gordo Lottery is a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, but if you don’t know anymore than that you should get to learn more. The lottery is noted for payouts that number amongst the world’s biggest - payouts as high as 2.6 billion Euros. Even that isn’t the only thing that’s special here. With over thirteen thousand prizes being offered, your chances of winning a prize work out to around one per every six. Astonishing odds when looked at in the context of other international lotteries. In the Euromillions Euro lottery one draw is held every month. Three months each see bigger draws featuring significantly grander prizes. Specifically: January’s “El Nio”, the summer “San Ildefonso”, and held around Christmas, “El Gordo” i.e. “the Fatso”, with the Xmas El Gordo draw being the biggest of the twelve. Unusually among lottery systems, the balls used in the El Gordo lotto have five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw one ball is drawn from a bowl to identify the winning number while a second is pulled out of a second bowl to determine the prize value. If you would like to get in on the action there is an entire ticket called a “serie”. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” which is worth one tenth of a full ticket. Neither choice is particularly cheap, though, and equally neither has better odds of being a winner. That’s why many players of the El Gordo lotto use the e-lottery scheme. Everyone is assured of winning a prize if play the e-lottery system. You will automatically be sorted into a team when you buy in with the El Gordo lottery syndicate. Each team is assigned a number from 0-9 when the drawing is made, the last digit of the winning number identifies the team that will receive the prize. The money is divided equally among the team members. Everyone subscribes again for the draw the following month and it starts all over again.
Some people feel a little concerned when they hear that they would have to share these big payouts. The thing to remember is there’s still a lot of money to share out when the original prize was 2.6 billion Euros. You’ll find the e-lottery system is far more cost effective, and with the knowledge that you’ll win something in each draw, you don’t have to worry about constantly losing. It’s the smartest way to play the El Gordo lotto…
