El Gordo with the UK Lotto

The plan of this article is to clarify some of the significant differences between conventional lottery games and the world famous Spanish El Gordo.


The plan of this piece of writing is to emphasize some of the fundamental differences between popular conventional lottery games and the world famous El Gordo.

In a standard lottery game a player is typically required to select a series of numbers from a specific number range as well as an additional bonus number. For example, in the UK National lottery a player has to choose 6 main numbers from 1-49 inclusive and then a further bonus number from the same range. To win the top prize, a player has to match all of their six main selected numbers with those numbers drawn. If no player manages to match all the drawn numbers in a given week, the jackpot is rolled forward to the following week increasing in size as it does so.

The December El Gordo lottery draw is very different in this area; only so many tickets are printed for this draw and because of this, winners are guaranteed in every draw.

The price you have to pay for an entire El Gordo ticket (Billete) is also very different from buying a ticket in a regular lotto game, such as the UK lottery. Buying a ticket for one UK National lottery draw costs a British citizen precisely 1 pound. El Gordo tickets will, on the other hand, set you back 200 Euros each. Due to the considerable cost of playing this lotto game, complete tickets are divided into ten parts (Decimos) costing a more reasonable 20 Euros. It is as a result rather common for groups of friends or family members to divide the cost of an entire El Gordo lotto ticket in order to make the game a more workable proposition.

In the UK lotto a very small percentage of people ever win sizeable amounts of cash, with the majority left disappointed week in week out. The El Gordo lotto on the other hand gives that winning sensation to a much larger number of people. In the 2006 El Gordo draw, 3 million Euros were paid out to each of the 180 winning billetes. In the El Gordo draw of 2005, the winning number was sold in the town of Vic in Catalonia (population 37,825), whose inhabitants collected in the region of 500 million Euros.

The El Gordo lottery also delivers significantly improved odds of collecting a cash win compared to that of the UK lotto; with the Elgordo you have a very nice 1 in 6 chance of grabbing a cash payout compared to 1 in 52 when participating in the UK lotto.

When participating in lotto games like the UK lotto, fresh lotto tickets are created every time a pound is spent meaning that tickets never run out for any of the weekly draws. The Elgordo is completely different because only a specified quantity of tickets are ever printed and once they are all sold no more will become available.

The Elgordo not only generates huge excitement in its native Spain but now all over the world due to the ever increasing amount of web-based lottery ticket sales agents. It is therefore imperative that you purchase your preferred amount of tickets as soon as they become available, to avoid missing out.