The Smart Player’s Authoritative Guide to the Spanish Elgordo Lottery
The first time you hear about the Elgordo Lottery, a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, you definitely need to learn more. This lottery is internationally renowned for payouts that can match the biggest around the world - payouts as high as 2.6 billion Euros. Nor is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. The Elgordo Lottery offers up more than thirteen thousand prizes, which works out to a one in six chance of winning a prize. When compared with prizes given by competing lottos, it has to be said that Elgordo’s offerings certainly aren’t at all bad.
There is one draw per month under the auspices of the Euromillions Euro lotto. Three months each year see special drawings promising significantly bigger prizes. Richest of all the draws is “Elgordo” which is held around Xmas, while the two other bigger draws are set for January (”El Nio”) and in summer (”San Ildefonso”).
Unusually for lottery systems, the balls required by the Elgordo lottery have five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. In this system, one ball is selected from a bowl to determine the winning ticket while a second is drawn from the second bowl to determine the amount of the prize.
To enter the draw, your first choice is a full ticket, known as a “serie”. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” valued at one-tenth of a full ticket. Neither alternative is particularly cheap, however, and equally neither has an optimal chance of being one of the 1/6 winning tickets. Because of this the Euromillions Euro Lottery also offers an e-lottery system.
The e-lottery system promises a prize for everyone who takes part. Just buy into the Elgordo Lottery syndicate and you’ll be pooled into teams. These teams are assigned an identifying number from 1-9, the last number on the winning ball in the draw being used to identify the team that wins the prize. The money is then divided among the team members. Everyone subscribes again for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again. Some players are hesitant on hearing that they have to share these big payouts. But when you consider how much 2.6 billion Euros is actually worth, there’s still plenty for everybody. You’ll find the syndicate system is far more cost effective, and knowing that you’ll win something every month, there are no worries about constantly losing. The syndicate is the truly smart way to go…
