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When you first come across the El Gordo Lottery, a part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, you absolutely need to know more. Promising payouts that can be as high as two point six billion Euros, the lottery claims one of the world’s richest jackpots. And neither is this the lottery’s only claim to fame! With more than 13,000 prizes available, your odds of winning something mean that there’s one winner per six tickets. Astonishing odds when compared with the majority of other lotteries.

Once per month the Euromillions Euro lotto holds its draw. Three months a year see bigger draws promising significantly more substantive prizes. Largest of all these drawings is the Xmas lottery “El Gordo” (being the “Fat Cat”), while the two other special drawings are set for January (“El Nio”) and summer (“San Ildefonso”). Unlike other Euro lottery systems, the El Gordo Lottery uses balls with five digits printed on each ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw one ball is drawn from a bowl to determine the winning ticket and another ball is drawn from the second bowl to decide the prize value. To enter the draw, your first option is a full ticket, known as a “serie”. Also available for purchase is a “décimo”, worth one-tenth of a full ticket. This is the other option. Neither alternative is especially cheap, however, and obviously neither has an optimal chance of being a winner. That is why many people playing the El Gordo lotto take advantage of the e-lottery scheme.

Using the e-lottery system, you can be sure that you will win a prize. Simply buy into the El Gordo Lotto syndicate which will then divide you up into teams. Each team is assigned an identifying number from zero to nine, the last digit of the winning number in the draw being used to identify the team that wins the prize. Every member will receive an even share. Everyone subscribes again for the draw the following month and the cycle begins again. It’s natural to wonder whether it’s worth sharing these pots. What you have to remember is that when the amount being divided is 2.6 billion Euros, a share works out at a substantial sum of money. You’ll find the syndicate program is far more cost effective, and with the knowledge that you’ll win something once a month, there are no worries about losing all the time. The e-lottery offers the best return of them all…