If this is the first you’ve heard of the El Gordo lottery, a part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, you definitely need to know more. Boasting one of the world’s richest jackpots, this simple wager offers payouts of between eighty four million and two point six billion Euros. This is not the lottery’s only claim to fame. In this lottery the odds of winning something are a staggering one in six, with over thirteen thousand different amounts. Not bad when compared to the prizes offered by comparable lotteries. There is one draw per month in the Euromillions Euro lottery. But three months each year are dedicated to bigger draws for grander prizes. Richest (and most popular) of all these lotteries is the Christmas lottery, “El Gordo” (“Fat Cat”), while the other special lotteries are set for January (“El Nio”) and summer (“San Ildefonso”). Unusually for lotteries, the balls required by the El Gordo lotto have five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. During the draw one ball is drawn from a bowl to determine the winning ticket while a second is drawn from the second bowl to determine the value of the prize. To enter the draw, your first choice is a full ticket, termed a “serie”. Or, you can go for a more affordable option known as a “décimo”, valued at one tenth of a full ticket. Sadly, both these choices are comparatively costly ways to play and neither of the two will increase your chances of winning anyway. As a result the Euromillions Euro Lottery has additionally provided an e-lottery system.

This system promises a prize to everyone who takes part. Just buy into the Euromillions Euro Lotto syndicate and they’ll pool you into teams. Each team is assigned a number from zero to nine when the drawing is held, the last digit of the winning number determines which team receives the prize. An equal division of the prize among the members comes next. Before next month’s draw, the syndicate once again sells subscriptions to continue the e-lottery. It is common to wonder whether it would be worth sharing these payoffs. But when you stop to think how much more than two and a half billion Euros is actually worth, there’s still lots of money for everybody. You’ll find the e-lottery system is far more cost effective, and knowing that you’ll share in a prize every month, you don’t have to worry about losing all the time. There isn’t any smarter way to play…