The El Gordo lottery is a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, but if you don’t know anymore than that there’s a lot more to find out. Boasting payouts that can be as high as 2.6 billion Euros, the lottery offers one of the richest jackpots in the world. Even that isn’t the only thing that’s special here. With over thirteen thousand prizes being offered, the odds of winning something work out to around one in every six. That’s a very good rate when compared with the majority of other international lotteries. With the Euromillions Euro lottery, one draw is held every month. But three months a year have bigger draws for grander prizes. Precisely: January’s “El Nio”, Summer’s “San Ildefonso”, and the Christmas “El Gordo” (which can be translated as “the Fatso”) with Christmas’s El Gordo draw being the biggest and most popular of the twelve. Balls numbered between 00,000 and 84,999 are not what you expect to see from lottery systems, but the El Gordo lottery employs a unique system using them. One ball is drawn from each of two bowls; the first draw determines the winning ticket, the second the prize value.

To enter the draw, your first choice is a full ticket, termed a “serie”. Also available for purchase is a “décimo”, worth one tenth of a full ticket. This is your other option. Sadly, both both of these choices are costly ways to play nor will either boost your chances of winning anyway. As a result many players of the El Gordo lotto instead use the e-lottery scheme. With this system, you can be sure that you will win a prize. All you do is buy into the Euromillions Euro Lottery syndicate and you’ll be divided into teams. Each team is assigned a number ranging from 0-9 when the draw is held, the last digit of the winning number determines which team receives the money. This money is divided evenly among the team. After that, subscriptions are sold for the syndicate ready for the lottery the following month. Some players feel concerned on hearing that they have to share these jackpots. But when you stop to think how much more than two and a half billion Euros really is, there’s still lots of money to go around. You’ll find the syndicate system is far more cost effective, and with the knowledge that you’ll share in a prize in each draw, you don’t have to worry about constantly losing. Believe me, there is no more effective way to play…