A key part of the Euromillions Euro lottery is the Loteria de Elgordo which you may find it worthwhile to know more about. This lottery is well known for jackpots that can match the world’s biggest – payouts up to more than two and a half billion Euros. Nor is this the lottery’s only claim to fame! In this lottery the odds of winning something are an amazing one in six, and these prizes can be any of over 13,000 different amounts. These are actually stunning odds when viewed in the context of the majority of other international lotteries. There is one draw each month held by the Euromillions Euro lotto. But three months a year play host to bigger lotteries for grander prizes. Richest of all these drawings is the Christmas lottery, “Elgordo”, while the other two bigger lotteries are set for January – “El Nio” – and in summer (“San Ildefonso”).
Balls with numbers in a range between 00,000 and 84,999 are not what you expect to see from lottery systems, but the Elgordo lottery employs an unusual approach taking full advantage of them. During the draw a ball is selected from a bowl to find the winning number while a second is drawn from a second bowl to decide the value of the prize.
If you want to have a chance to win you can buy an entire ticket called a “serie”. You can also go for a cheaper option known as a “décimo”, valued at one tenth of a full ticket. Neither alternative is particularly cheap, however, and equally neither has better odds of being a winner. As a result many people playing the Elgordo lottery use the e-lottery system. Everyone’s assured of winning a prize if participating in the e-lottery system. Just buy into the Euromillions Euro Lotto syndicate and you’ll be pooled into teams. These teams are assigned an identifying number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw being used to identify the team which will win the prize. A fair division of the prize amongst the team follows. Everyone renews their subscription for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again.
Some people are hesitant on hearing that they would have to share these big payouts. The thing to remember is there’s still plenty to go around when the total prize was 2.6 billion Euros. No reason for concern with this system – you’ll win a prize during each draw, and on top of that a place in the syndicate is the more affordable approach to playing. There is clearly no smarter way to play…
