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Spain El Gordo Lotto - Spanish Lottery Fever
You have one chance each week to win the popular Spanish El Gordo lotto lottery. This lottery was one of the first to be available to play online. from any place around the World. It's full title is the El Gordo La Primitiva and if you fancy lotto player then, your chances of winning a Spanish
El Gordo lotto lottery then Sunday could be your lucky night.
Please understand that there are three main very popular lotteries in Spain, mean this El Gordo lotto and another traditional lotto called La Primitiva, played on each Thursdays and Saturdays. The third Spanish lottery is a famous classic lottery (not Lotto), called Christmas El Gordo Lottery,
which is the massive Christmas draw held every year in Madrid, Spain, on December 22nd.
Please be aware that on this page, we are talking about traditional lotto game called El Gordo de la Primitiva, which is available to play each Sunday, when draw takes place every week throughout the year.
El Gordo lotto lottery then Sunday could be your lucky night.
Please understand that there are three main very popular lotteries in Spain, mean this El Gordo lotto and another traditional lotto called La Primitiva, played on each Thursdays and Saturdays. The third Spanish lottery is a famous classic lottery (not Lotto), called Christmas El Gordo Lottery,
which is the massive Christmas draw held every year in Madrid, Spain, on December 22nd.
Please be aware that on this page, we are talking about traditional lotto game called El Gordo de la Primitiva, which is available to play each Sunday, when draw takes place every week throughout the year.
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The El Gordo de la Primitiva from the Spanish National Lottery is run by Loterias y Apuestas del Estado and governed by the Spanish Government as part of the Loteria Nacional.
On the right picture : El Gordo de la Promitiva lotto blank coupon playslip. |
The El Gordo de la Primitiva uses what is known as a double matrix – one of 5/54 and another one of 1/10 - which means that when playing this Spanish lotto game, you need firstly to select
5 numbers from a pool of numbers from 1 to 54 and then select a “bonus” number from a pool of numbers from 1 to 10.
5 numbers from a pool of numbers from 1 to 54 and then select a “bonus” number from a pool of numbers from 1 to 10.
Below, you will find all the detailed information about Spain El Gordo lotto game, like El Gordo lotto game basic information, El Gordo latest lotto results, etc.
If you just want to play El Gordo Lotto now online, please click PLAY! button at the top of this page, choose your numbers, register and play, Good Luck!
If you just want to play El Gordo Lotto now online, please click PLAY! button at the top of this page, choose your numbers, register and play, Good Luck!
Spanish El Gordo Basic Information
There are 5 main numbers and a bonus number are drawn. The bonus number can help you win some prizes. Below, you will find the table which show, which prizes you will win, if you will hit the bonus number.
El Gordo de la Primitiva jackpots are guaranteed to start at €5 million and each time it is not won, it is added onto the next draw and continues like this until someone wins.
Spanish El Gordo de la primitiva draws are held once a week, on Sundays 13:30 (1:30pm) local time. Jackpots are paid in Cash, tax free.
El Gordo de la Primitiva jackpots are guaranteed to start at €5 million and each time it is not won, it is added onto the next draw and continues like this until someone wins.
Spanish El Gordo de la primitiva draws are held once a week, on Sundays 13:30 (1:30pm) local time. Jackpots are paid in Cash, tax free.
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The odds of hitting the Jackpot in Spanish Lotto El Gordo, are 1 in 31,625,100. You will win the Jackpot, when five main numbers + bonus number are hitted. You will win 2nd Prize when five main numbers are hitted and the odds are 1 in 3,513,900. You will find winning odds table on the right. Jackpots and prizes are paid in cash. |
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To give you some imagination, how much you can win in El Gordo de la Primitiva lotto, please take a look at the table, at the right. It shows the level of prizes was paid, on example draw of September, 2010. |
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Spain El Gordo Lotto Lottery Latest Results
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Like other modern lotteries, Spain El Gordo lotto lottery is fun and easy to play online, from any place in the World, using debit, credit card and many other electronic funds transfer options.
If you can’t get to Spain in person and play this lotto localy by traditional way, you can purchase Spanish El Gordo lotto tickets online, easily and fast.
All you have to do is to click the PLAY! button below, choose your lucky numbers, register and play. You may do this from any place in the world, using computer or mobile device, and internet access.
If you can’t get to Spain in person and play this lotto localy by traditional way, you can purchase Spanish El Gordo lotto tickets online, easily and fast.
All you have to do is to click the PLAY! button below, choose your lucky numbers, register and play. You may do this from any place in the world, using computer or mobile device, and internet access.
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Online players can choose to purchase tickets in a single form for, a one specific Spanish El Gordo lotto drawing.
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Spanish El Gordo Christmas Lottery
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El Gordo, otherwise called the Fat One, is the common name for the Spanish
Christmas Lottery. Drawn each year just before Christmas, on the 22nd
December, it has the largest prize fund, of any lottery in the World !.
On the right picture : View of the television studio where El Gordo Christmas Lottery draw take place. It is tradition that kids do the main job. |
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El Gordo lottery became so much part of tradition the Spanish nation that, there is no astonishment that the whole Spanish nation partakes in the Christmas lottery fever. This El Gordo lottery activity caused the statistical case that, Spain spends more per head on gambling than anywhere else in the World.
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Each El Gordo ticket comes with a religous Christmas scene, which is changed every year. The design of tickets are so unique that, collecting losing lottery tickets is actually a hobby in Spain. |
El Gordo is a very traditional game, compared to it's modern counterparts. In El Gordo Christmas lottery, you do not choose numbers by yourself. Instead of that, you just buy ready made ticket, with a number of ticket already printed.
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You will win 1st prize when, you will match the number printed on the ticket with the number drawn on December 22nd draw. In El Gordo ChristmasLlottery, there are 85,000 different numbers issued and, in fact, you do not buy a ticket, rather a tenth of a ticket. You are in need of some explanation ? |
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- 85,000 numbers are issued in the range from 00001 to 85000
- Each number is given to 180 "Series"
- Each "Serie" is divided into 10 "Decimas"
- Each "decima" costs €20
- This brings in a total prize fund of €3,060,000,000
Christmas El Gordo Draw Day
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El Gordo is drawn from two very large spherical cages. In one cage, a ball for each number from 00001 - 85,000 is placed and in the other 1,787 balls representing the prizes. Then, over the course of the morning, prizes and their corresponding numbers are drawn.
The new 'bombo' which is used to hold the wooden balls which carry the numbers in the 'Gordo' Christmas lottery in Spain - Photo EFE |
The draw lasts for three hours on the morning of the December 22nd, as the numbers are sung out by children from the San Ildefonso school in Madrid. Thirty one people in Rebollo de Duero, Soria, had a share of the 18 million € El Gordo brought to this small village in the 2006 Christmas draw.
In Spain, there is tradition that factory workers groups, whole offices, clubs, bars, etc. are choosing their El Gordo lottery number when, first El Gordo tickets go on sale, around september or so. This number will be purchased by everyone belonging to that organisation.
Many organisations produce even parts of "decimas". For example, a charitable organisations will sell "small" tickets at €2.50 in which, €2 goes to the cost of the "decima" and €0.50 to fund the charity.
Many organisations produce even parts of "decimas". For example, a charitable organisations will sell "small" tickets at €2.50 in which, €2 goes to the cost of the "decima" and €0.50 to fund the charity.
By the way, do you know that tickets
ending with the number 5 are the ones that have been repeated most
often throughout the history of the El Gordo Christmas Lottery in Spain, being winners 31 times.
It's followed by the numbers 4 and 6, which have won on 26 occasions and the numbers 3 and 8, both winning 20 times. The number that has won the least number of times is the number 1 - that has only won on 8 occasions.
It's followed by the numbers 4 and 6, which have won on 26 occasions and the numbers 3 and 8, both winning 20 times. The number that has won the least number of times is the number 1 - that has only won on 8 occasions.
Spain El Gordo Christmas Lottery Prizes
There is a lot of money available for prizes, when we consider over €3 billion in the prizes wallet. The first winner is the Spanish government, which takes 30% for themselves. The rest is gived away to 13,334 different prizes, like :
- 1st Prize - €3,000,000 per "serie" (€300,000 per "decima" applies to all)
- 2nd Prize - €1,000,000
- 3rd Prize - €500,000
- TWO 4th Prizes - €200,000
- EIGHT 5th Prizes - €50,000
- 1,774 6th prizes of €1,000
- 2 x €20,000 for the numbers either side of the 1st prize
- 2 x €12,500 for the numbers either side of the 2nd prize
- 2 x €9,600 for the numbers either side of the 2nd prize
- 99 x €1,000 for the numbers with the 1st three numbers that match the 1st prize
- 99 x €1,000 for the numbers with the 1st three numbers that match the 2nd prize
- 99 x €1,000 for the numbers with the 1st three numbers that match the 3rd prize
- 198 x €1,000 for the numbers with the 1st three numbers that match the 4th prizes
- 849 x €1,000 for the numbers with the last two numbers that match the 1st prize
- 849 x €1,000 for the numbers with the last two numbers that match the 2nd prize
- 849 x €1,000 for the numbers with the last two numbers that match the 3rd prize
- 8499 x €200 for the numbers with the last number that match the 1st prize.
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