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In Dec 2008 elotto brought the Spanish lottery to its product range, affording participants globally a immensely improved opportunity of partaking in this tremendous Spanish lottery prize fund.

If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, let me highlight just how important this lottery is to the large majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a public obsession in Spain for a very long time with immense interest generated by the Christmas lotto draw each year. Its a fact that ninety-eight% of the population play this Spanish National lotto each and every Christmas.

There are a couple of basic reasons why lot’s of Spanish subjects join in the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw.

First, there is the inducement of the largest lottery prize fund of any international lotto game - 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of 13 thousand cash prizes to be won. Lastly, the chance of accumulating a money prize in the Christmas draw are a highly feasible - one : six.

With the quantity of interest thats presented to the Christmas El Gordo lotto draw, lots of people are oblivious that there are 5 additional Spanish Lottery draws annually also. These games happen in January, March, May, July and November. While these five games do not boast the big prize fund of the Christmas lottery draw, they are large however, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. In addition, these games provide almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus odds of picking up a cash prize of an impressive one : three.

The Spanish Christmas Lotto operates in an unusual way to virtually all other world-wide drawings. A full lottery ticket ‘billete’ is really expensive, costing two hundred Euros. However, these lottery tickets are divided up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.

When buying your lotto tickets you have the option of buying 1 decimo, a complete lotto ticket, or a part of a ticket. If you do not purchase the entire lottery ticket, somebody else will buy the remainder of your ticket. For Instance, when you buy two decimos, someone else purchases three decimos and someone else buys five and your lottery ticket wins 1000 Euros, then you will receive two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire ticket, it is not uncommon for families and acquaintances to mix their lottery money and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).