Playing the El Gordo the Truly Sophisticated Way
The Elgordo Loteria is part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, but if that’s all you’ve ever heard you definitely need to find out more. This lottery is noted for payouts that number amongst the world’s richest – payouts as high as 2.6 billion Euros. Nor is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. The odds of becoming a prize winner are as high as one in six, with over thirteen thousand different amounts. When you consider the prizes being featured by competing lottos, it has to be said that Elgordo’s offerings certainly aren’t at all bad.
With the Euromillions Euro lottery, one draw is made every month. But three months each year have special drawings for grander prizes. Biggest of all the lotteries is the Xmas lottery, “Elgordo”, while the two other special lotteries are in January (“El Nio”) and summer (“San Ildefonso”). In an atypical approach to draws, the balls used in the Elgordo lotto display five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw one ball is selected from a bowl to determine the winning number while a second is pulled out of a second bowl to decide the value of the prize. Should you want to have a chance to win you can get an entire ticket known as a “serie”. Also available is a “décimo”, worth one tenth of a full ticket. This is the other option. Neither alternative is particularly cheap, though, and obviously neither has an optimal chance of being a winner. As a result the Euromillions Euro Lotto also offers an e-lottery system. When you employ the e-lottery system, you’re certain to win a prize. You’re automatically pooled into a team when you buy in with the Elgordo Lottery syndicate. These teams are assigned an identifying number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw being used to identify the team that will receive the prize. The prize is divided equally among the team members. In preparation for next month’s draw, the syndicate offers subscriptions once again and the e-lottery continues.
Some players feel a little concerned when they hear that they have to share these jackpots. But when you consider how much 2.6 billion Euros is actually worth, there’s still plenty to go around. No reason to worry playing by e-lottery – you’re guaranteed to win something during each drawing, and on top of that a share in the e-lottery is a cheaper way to play. It’s the smarter way to go the Euromillions Euro lotto.
