The aim of this article is to emphasize some of the fundamental differences between popular traditional lotto games and the world renowned El Gordo.
In a conventional lottery game a player is typically required to choose a series of numbers from a specified number range as well as an additional bonus number. For example, in the UK National lottery a player must choose 6 main numbers from 1-49 inclusive and then a further bonus number from the same range. To win the jackpot, a player has to match all of their six main chosen numbers with those numbers drawn. If there is no single ticket matching all the drawn numbers in a given week, the top prize is rolled forward to the following week increasing in size as it does so.
The Christmas El Gordo lottery draw is very different in this area; there are a maximum number of tickets printed for this draw and because of this, winners are guaranteed in every draw.
The cost of buying an entire El Gordo ticket (Billete) is also very different from buying a ticket in a regular lotto game, such as the UK lottery. Acquiring a ticket for one UK lotto draw costs a British citizen precisely 1 pound. Elgordo tickets will, however, cost you 200 Euros each. Owing to the considerable expense of participating in this lottery game, whole tickets are divided into ten parts (Decimos) costing a more reasonably priced 20 Euros. It is as a result fairly common for groups of friends or family members to split up the cost of an entire El Gordo lottery ticket in order to make the game a more feasible proposition.
In the UK lottery a tiny percentage of people ever win considerable amounts of cash, with the majority left disappointed week in week out. The El Gordo lotto on the other hand gives that winning sensation to a much larger number of people. In the 2006 El Gordo Spanish lottery draw, 3 million Euros were paid out to each of the 180 winning billetes. In the 2005 draw, the winning number was sold in the town of Vic in Catalonia (population 37,825), whose residents collected approximately 500 million Euros.
The El Gordo also presents considerably improved odds of picking up a cash win compared to that of the UK lotto; with the El Gordo lotto you have a very nice 1 in 6 chance of grabbing a cash payout compared to 1 in 52 when participating in the UK lottery.
When participating in lottery games like the UK National lottery, extra lotto tickets are made available each time a pound is spent meaning that tickets never run out for any of the weekly draws. The Elgordo is very different because only a specified quantity of tickets are ever printed and once they are all sold no more will become available.
The Elgordo not only generates huge joy in its native Spain but now all over the world due to the ever increasing amount of online lottery ticket sales agents. It is therefore imperative that you buy your chosen number of tickets as soon as they become available, to avoid missing out.
