Your Guide to the Elgordo Lottery
11 October 2009
If this is the first time you’ve come across the part of the Euromillions Euro lotto that is the el gordo 2009 Lottery, you’ll definitely want to know more. This lottery is well-known for jackpots that are among the biggest in the world – payouts as high as more than two and a half billion Euros. And neither is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. With over thirteen thousand prizes available the chances of winning a prize work out to around one in every six. When you consider prizes pitched by competing lotteries, you’ve got to admit that Elgordo’s offerings aren’t bad. Once a month the Euromillions Euro lotto holds a draw. Grander prizes can be won at featured drawings held during three months around the year. Largest of all the drawings is the Christmas lottery, “Elgordo” (being the “Fatso”), while the other two bigger lotteries take place in January – “El Nio” – and summer (“San Ildefonso”).
Balls each numbered between 00,000 and 84,999 are not part of a standard lottery system, but the Elgordo lottery employs an unusual approach taking full advantage of them. In this system, a ball is selected from a bowl to find the winning number and another ball is pulled out of the second bowl to decide the prize value.
To enter the lottery, one option is a full ticket, termed a “serie”. Or, you can choose the cheaper option called a “décimo”, which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Neither choice is particularly cheap, however, and of course neither has better odds of being a winner. As a consequence the Euromillions Euro Lotto also offers an e-lottery system.
Using this system, you can be confident of winning a prize. You will automatically be sorted into a team when you buy in to the Elgordo Lottery syndicate. These teams are assigned a number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw identifying the team that will win the money. This prize is then divided among the team members. Everyone subscribes again for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again.
Some players are concerned on hearing that they have to share these big payouts. But when you consider how much more than two and a half billion Euros really is, there’s still lots of money to go around. As you’re guaranteed to win each month, the e-lottery is both more cost effective and less stress as you know you’ll get a return. E-lottery is the best strategy…











