How The El Gordo Lottery Differs From The UK lotto

23/08/2009 by admin.

The plan of this piece of writing is to point out some of the fundamental differences between common traditional lottery games and the world renowned Spanish lottery, El Gordo.

In a conventional lotto game a player is generally required to pick a batch of numbers from a specific number range as well as an additional bonus number.  For example, in the UK lotto a player must choose 6 main numbers from 1-49 inclusive and then a further bonus number from the same range.  To collect the jackpot, a player must match all of their six main selected 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 following week increasing in size as it does so.

The Christmas Spanish El Gordo draw is very different in this area; there are only a certain number of tickets made available for this draw and due to this, winners are guaranteed in every draw. 

The cost of buying a full El Gordo ticket (Billete) is also hugely different from acquiring a ticket in a normal lotto game, like the UK National lotto.  Buying a ticket for one UK draw costs a United Kingdom resident precisely 1 pound.  El Gordo lottery tickets will, on the other hand, cost you 200 Euros each.  Owing to the substantial price tag of partaking in this lottery game, complete tickets are broken down into ten parts (Decimos) costing a more affordable 20 Euros.  It is therefore rather common for groups of friends or family members to divide the cost of an entire El Gordo ticket in order to make the game a more workable proposition.

In the UK National lottery a tiny percentage of individuals ever win large amounts of cash, with the majority left disappointed on a weekly basis.  The El Gordo lotto on the other hand gives that winning feeling to a much larger number of individuals.  In the 2006 El Gordo 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 inhabitants scooped approximately 500 million Euros.

The Elgordo also delivers considerably improved chances of collecting a cash payout compared to that of the UK National lottery; with the Elgordo you have a very good 1 in 6 chance of picking up a cash payout compared to 1 in 52 when partaking in the UK lotto.  

When participating in lotto games such as the UK National lottery, new lottery tickets are created every time a pound is spent meaning that tickets never run out for any of the weekly draws.  The El Gordo lotto is vastly different because only a certain number of tickets are ever printed and once they are all sold no more will become available.

The El Gordo lottery not only generates massive joy in its native Spain but now all over the world owing to the ever increasing amount of web-based lottery ticket sales agents.  It is therefore imperative that you purchase your preferred number of tickets as soon as they hit the market, to avoid disappointment. 
   

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