The El Gordo Loteria is part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, but if you don’t know anymore than that there’s a lot more to find out. This lottery is noted for jackpots that are among the biggest around the world - payouts as high as more than two and a half billion Euros. Even that isn’t all that’s special here. The El Gordo Lottery makes available more than thirteen thousand prizes, which will give you a one in six chance of winning a prize. Not bad at all if you hold it against what competing lotteries are prepared to give! Once per month the Euromillions Euro lottery holds a draw. Three months each play host to bigger lotteries offering significantly grander prizes. Richest (and most popular) of all the draws is the Xmas lottery “El Gordo”, while the two other bigger drawings are set for January - “El Nio” - and in summer (”San Ildefonso”).
Unusually for lotteries, the balls used by the El Gordo lottery draw have five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. One ball will be drawn from each of two bowls; the first selection determines the winning ticket, while the second determines what the ticket is worth.
Should you want to get in on the action you can buy an entire ticket called a “serie”. Or, you can go for a cheaper option called a “décimo”, worth one tenth of a full ticket. Unfortunately, both options are expensive ways to play and they won’t increase your chances of a win. This is the reason that the e-lottery scheme is used by many Euromillions Euro lottery players.
Using this system, you are guaranteed to win a prize. You just buy your way into the El Gordo Lotto syndicate which will then divide you up into teams. With each team assigned a number ranging from 0-9 when the draw is made, the last digit of the winning number identifies the team that will receive the money. All members then receive their share. Following that, subscriptions are offered ready for the next drawing.
It’s typical to wonder whether it’s worth sharing the payoffs. The thing is, there’s still plenty to go around when the total prize was 2.6 billion Euros. As you’re guaranteed to win at every draw, the e-lottery is both more cost effective and less stress as you know you’ll get a return. It’s the smartest strategy for the El Gordo lottery…