The goal of this article is to clarify some of the key differences between traditional lotto games and the world famous El Gordo.
The goal of this piece is to point out some of the major differences between common conventional national lottery games and the world famous Spanish lottery, El Gordo.
In a conventional lotto game a player is generally required to choose a series of numbers from a particular number range as well as an additional bonus number. For example, in the UK lottery a player if required to choose 6 main numbers from 1-49 inclusive and then a further bonus number from the same range. To win the jackpot, a player needs to match all of their six main chosen numbers with those numbers drawn. If no ticket holder matches all the drawn numbers in a given week, the top prize is rolled forward to the subsequent week growing in size as it does so.
The December El Gordo 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 price you have to pay for an entire El Gordo ticket (Billete) is also hugely different from acquiring a ticket in a typical lotto game, such as the UK lottery. Acquiring a ticket for one UK National lottery draw costs a United Kingdom resident precisely 1 pound. Elgordo tickets will, however, cost you 200 Euros each. Owing to the substantial expense of participating in this lotto game, complete tickets are divided into ten parts (Decimos) costing a more reasonable 20 Euros. It is therefore quite common for groups of friends or family members to divide the cost of an entire El Gordo lotto ticket in order to make the game a more feasible proposition.
In the UK National lottery a tiny percentage of individuals ever win substantial sums of cash, with the majority left disappointed every week. The El Gordo lottery on the other hand gives that winning experience to a greater number of people. In the 2006 El Gordo draw, 3 million Euros were paid out to each of the 180 winning billetes. In the El Gordo draw of 2005, the winning number was sold in the town of Vic in Catalonia (population 37,825), whose inhabitants scooped in the region of 500 million Euros.
The El Gordo lottery also delivers considerably better odds of picking up a cash prize compared to that of the UK National lotto; with the El Gordo lotto you have a very good 1 in 6 chance of picking up a cash prize compared to 1 in 52 when participating in the UK National lotto.
When partaking in lotteries such as the UK National lottery, fresh lottery tickets are created 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 certain amount of tickets are ever printed and once they are all sold no more will become available.
The El Gordo lotto not only generates huge excitement in its native Spain but now all around the world owing to the ever increasing number of internet-based lottery ticket sales agents. It is therefore imperative that you buy your desired number of tickets as soon as they become available, to avoid disappointment.
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