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On Dec 2008 elotto brought the Spanish lottery to it’s product range, giving participants globally a immensely bettered chance of partaking in this whopping Spanish lotto prize fund.

If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, allow me to highlight simply how crucial this lottery is to the wide majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a public obsession in Spain for a very long time with enormous interest generated by the Christmas lottery draw every year. Believe it or not ninety-eight per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto every Christmas.

There are a few great reasons why so many Spanish subjects join in the Christmas El Gordo draw.

Firstly, on that point is the inducement of the biggest lottery prize fund of any international lotto game - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Last, the chance of picking up a money prize in the Christmas lotto draw are a extremely attainable - one : six.

With the measure of interest thats dedicated to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a lot of people are oblivious that there is 5 extra Spanish Lotto draws every year also. These games take place on May, July, January and November and March. While these 5 games do not feature the immense prize fund of the Christmas lottery draw, they are sizable nevertheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. In addition, these lotto games provide virtually 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw and betting odds of picking up a cash prize of an amazing 1 in 3.

The Spanish Christmas Lotto works in a different way to virtually all other world-wide lotteries. A full lotto ticket ‘billete’ is really pricey, costing two hundred Euros. However, these tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing twenty Euros apiece.

When buying your lotto tickets you have the option of buying one decimo, a complete lottery ticket, or a part of a lotto ticket. If you do not buy the entire lotto ticket, someone else will buy the remainder of your lotto ticket. For example, if you buy two decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and someone else buys 5 and your ticket wins 1000 Euros, and then you will collect two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lotto ticket, it is not unusual for households and acquaintances to mix their lotto cash and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.