In Spanish, El Gordo means “The Fat One”. It is also the perfect name for one of the oldest and biggest lottery in the world that is The Spanish Lottery. This lottery was introduced in 1812 and up to date has been giving the most generous if not the largest prize pool winnings in the history of lotto. Last year, over Є2 billion was given away as prize money, the biggest in the world!
The El Gordo de Navidad is drawn every December 22 making the Spanish Christmas a truly bountiful one. This massive lottery has two other draws within the year giving players more chances to win. There is the January 6 draw called Sorteo del Nino and the July 5 draw called Summer Fat One.
The game itself is exciting and although it takes around 5 hours to finish, it is already part of the Spanish culture that's why the whole country stops to watch every second of it.
Two bowls are used and filled with the lottery balls. Each of the balls are taken from every bowl all at the same time until all the lottery prizes have been won. There are big odds that you will win in the Spanish Lottery of El Gordo. The chances are 1:6 with an average of 2,000 winners for the tickets with the least value.
How to Join in the El Gordo
What makes this Spanish Lottery unique from other lottery games in the world is that one Billete or ticket is quite expensive. The tickets are then split into ten “decimos” to make it more affordable for the players. These tickets can be bought separately. If you purchased just one decimo which is a tenth of the whole ticket, you are only entitled to one tenth of the ticket prize.
What Spanish players do is that they pool their funds together to buy a whole ticket. This started the El Gordo Group play or where they all pitch in their money for one ticket and share in the winnings later on. This practice has become so common among villages and families that it has become a nationwide tradition. The El Gordo games has become a social event that players call it “playing together” under one ticket.
There was even this story that one whole village shared in the purchase of the jackpot ticket. Of course, the entire village each had an equal share of the whopping jackpot prize. The jackpot prizes of El Gordo are quite substantial that even a portion can amount to hundreds of thousands of euros!
Above all lotteries, The El Gordo lottery tickets are very accessible, over the internet or when you get a chance to visit Spain. The tickets are sold all throughout summer and you can easily buy them from online. There are even monthly draws wherein you can take your chance and win a part of the big fat winnings.
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