Going for the Spanish Elgordo Exploiting the E-Lottery System
The first time you hear about the Elgordo Loteria, a part of the Euromillions Euro lotto, you absolutely need to learn more. This lottery is famous for top payouts that can match the biggest in the world - payouts as high as 2.6 billion Euros. Nor is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. The odds of winning a prize of some sort are as high as one in six, and these prizes can be any of more than 13,000 different amounts. That’s a surprisingly good rate when compared with the majority of other international lotteries.
In the Euromillions Euro lotto, one draw is held every month. But three months each year are scheduled for bigger lotteries for yet bigger prizes. The 3 special drawings take place in January, summer, and around Christmas; these are, in order, El Nio, San Ildefonso and Elgordo also known as “the fatso”.
Unusually for lottery systems, the balls used in the Elgordo lotto have five digits on each, these numbers ranging from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw a ball is selected from a bowl to identify the winning number and another ball is drawn from a second bowl to decide the value of the prize. To enter the lottery, one choice is a full ticket, known as a “serie”. There is also a cheaper option; called a “décimo” which is worth one tenth of a full ticket. Neither choice is especially cheap, however, and equally neither has an optimal chance of being one of the one in six winning tickets. As a result the Euromillions Euro Lottery also offers an e-lottery system.
Everyone’s certain to win a prize if participating in the e-lottery system. You simply buy into the Elgordo Lottery syndicate where you’re pooled into teams. With each team numbered between zero and nine, the final digit on the winning ball determines the winning team and they go on to take the money. The money is distributed among the team. In preparation for next month’s lottery, the syndicate offers subscriptions once again and the e-lottery continues.
Sharing the jackpots is cause for concern for some players. But when you take into account how much 2.6 billion Euros is actually worth, there’s still lots of money to go around. You’ll find the syndicate system is far more affordable, and knowing that you’ll share in a prize in each draw, there are no worries about constantly losing. The syndicate is the truly smart way to go…