Spanish lotteries are one of the oldest in the world. There are many variations of Spanish lottery, which are played nowadays in Spain. Many foreigners and lottery players from abroad are confused what are the differences between different lotteries in Spain. We hope that this short article will help to understand: What are the different variations of ElGordo Spanish lottery?
Lottery in Spain has very long history, which began in 18th century. All Spanish lotteries have been created in order to raise funds for the Spanish royal treasury. Also, in order to increase state tax revenue for the public spending. LaPrimitiva was the first Spanish lottery, which began its operation in 1763 & the world famous Spanish Christmas lottery, the special ElGordo de Navidad began its operation in 1812.
To play in Spanish Christmas lottery
ElGordo de Navidad, click here:
Currently there there are many different variations of Spanish lotteries, since that time, such as:
– LaPrimitiva (weekly lotto)
– ElGordo de laPrimitiva (weekly lotto)
– ElGordo de Navidad (Spanish christmas lottery)
– ElGordo del Nino (Spanish lotto of January)
– San Ildefonso (Spanish summer lottery)
– ElGordo Nacional Extra (Spanish monthly lottery)
Basically there are 2 types of Spanish elgordo lotteries:
– weekly lotto
– monthly lotto
Weekly Spanish lotteries:
LaPrimitiva and ElGordo de LaPrimitiva both are weekly lottery.
LaPrimitiva is played every week on each Thursday and Saturday.
ElGordo de LaPrimitiva is played every week on Sunday.
Monthly Spanish lotteries:
Spanish lottery “ElGordo Nacional Extra” is played every month. Additionally in December, January and July there is additional lottery game, which maintains the same playing format like “ElGordo Nacional Extra”
In December the additional game is:
“ElGordo de Navidad”. (Spanish christmas lottery)
In January the additional game is:
“ElGordo del Nino”. (Spanish lotto of January)
In July the additional game is:
“San Ildefonso” (Spanish lotto of the summer)
Basically, Spanish Christmas lottery, “ElGordo de Navidad” is a special variation of Spanish monthly lotto “ElGordo Nacional Extra”. Those special monthly lotteries offer much bigger prizes to win comparing with the regular monthly Spanish lotteries.
What are the differences between weekly and monthly Spanish lotteries?
There are significant differences between, how to play in ElGordo weekly, comparing with how to play in monthly El Gordo.
Spanish lottery ElGordo weekly is conducted in similar fashion as typical lottery game.
It means that lottery players need to select 5 main numbers from a pool of 54 numbers. And one additional numbers from another pool of numbers. This is how lottery players from around the world play in typical lottery game.
However, ElGordo Spanish monthly lottery is played in completely different way, namely.
First of all there is limited number of lottery coupons on offer. Once all the coupons are sold out, there is no more coupons available to buy.
Each month, there are 100000 coupons with five-digits numbers printed on them ranging from 00000 up to 99999 in each set. Each set of coupons is printed multiple times in many different series. The number of printed sets is different each month and each year. Because of that, the total number of ElGordo coupons on offer varies and depends on the month.
Number of printed series varies significantly between months. For example, in regular monthly ElGordo, could be just 10 printed sets. This means 1 million coupons offered for sale. However in case of more popular ElGordo monthly games, the number of printed coupon sets is much higher.
In case of the most popular December game, ElGodo de Navidad, the number of printed coupon sets can be even as high as 160 or 180. This means 160 or 180 million coupons offered for sale.
In case of other games, such as “del Nino” in January, this number is somewhere in between, for example for January 2017, 40 sets of printed coupons available to buy.
Each of the coupons is divided for 10 parts, this gives option to buy whole coupon (10 parts) or one-tenth of the coupon, or any other combinations.
During, ElGordo monthly lottery draw there are 2 drums. The first drum contains 100.000 small balls, and the second drum contains the number of balls equal to the number of prizes available.
In order to determine the winners, during lottery draw, firstly ball with five-digits number is selected randomly from the first drum where the winning number printed on it. Then the second ball is selected from the second drum with the prize amount printed on it.
By matching both balls we have a winning number and prize assigned to this number.
To learn in more details, how to play in “ElGordo de Navidad” Spanish christmas lottery, click here.
We hope that this short article gave an answer to a question:
What are the different variations of El Gordo Spanish lottery?