The E-Lottery System & the El Gordo Lotto — a Smart Player’s Guide
A key part of the Euromillions Euro lottery is the Loteria de El Gordo which you may well wish to learn about. Famed for one of the world’s largest jackpots, this simple game of hazard offers pots that can run up to more than two and a half billion Euros. Even that is not all that’s remarkable here. In this lottery the odds of winning something are an amazing one in six, with more than thirteen thousand different amounts. When you consider the prizes given by competing lottos, that’s nothing to be scorned. There is one draw each month in the Euromillions Euro lotto. Three months each year see bigger draws featuring significantly bigger prizes. These three special draws take place in January, summer, and around Christmas: they are, in order, El Nio, San Ildefonso and El Gordo (which is Spanish for “Fat One”).
In an atypical approach to draws, the balls required by the El Gordo lotto have five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. One ball apiece is drawn from two bowls; the first draw determines the winner, the second what the ticket is worth.
So how do you enter this lottery draw? You have two basic choices; first, you can purchase a “serie” or a full ticket. Or, you can choose the cheaper option called a “décimo”, worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Neither choice is particularly cheap, though, and equally neither has better odds of being one of the 1/6 winning tickets. Because of this the Euromillions Euro Lotto has put an e-lottery system into operation. The e-lottery system can guarantee a prize to everyone who takes part. All you do is buy into the Euromillions Euro Lotto syndicate and you’ll be pooled into teams. With each team assigned a number from 0-9 when the draw is held, the last number on the winning ball identifies which team will receive the money. The prize is divided equally among the members. Everyone subscribes again for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again.
Some players are concerned when they hear that they have to share these big payouts. But when you take into account how much 2.6 billion Euros really is, there’s still lots of money to go around. As you’re guaranteed to win once a month, the syndicate system is both less of a worry and more affordable. It’s the smart strategy for the El Gordo lottery.
