On Dec 2008 e-lotto brought the Spanish National lottery to its product range, giving participants globally a immensely bettered opportunity of sharing in this huge Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, let me highlight just how all-important this lottery is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with enormous involvement generated by the Christmas lottery draw every year. Believe it or not ninety-eight per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto every Christmas.

There are a few primary reasons why lot’s of Spanish nationals join in the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw.

First Of All, on that point is the inducement of the largest lotto prize fund of any world-wide lotto game – with over 2 Billion Euros! Second, there are more than 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the probability of collecting a cash prize on the Christmas draw are a extremely achievable – one in six.

With the amount of interest that’s afforded to the Christmas Elgordo lottery draw, lots of people are unaware that there is 5 extra Spanish Lottery draws every year also. These lotto games take place in July, January and November, March and May. While these five games don’t boast the massive prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are large however, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. Also, these games provide almost three times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw plus odds of picking up a cash prize of an amazing one : three.

The Christmas Spanish lottery functions in a different way to almost all other world lotteries. A full ticket ‘billete’ is really costly, costing two hundred Euros. However, these tickets are broken up into 10 ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros apiece.

When purchasing your lottery tickets you have the choice of buying 1 decimo, a complete lotto ticket, or a share of a ticket. If you don’t purchase the entire lotto ticket, someone else will buy the rest of your lotto ticket. E.g., if you buy 2 decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and somebody else buys five and your lotto ticket wins one thousand Euros, and then you will collect 200 Euros, three hundred Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of purchasing an entire ticket, it is not uncommon for households and acquaintances to amalgamate their lotto money and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).