HOW TO WIN ELGORDO LOTTERY
Players of this lotto should have a valid ElGordo Lotto ticket. In order to win this Spanish Lottery jackpot, all the numbers marked on your ticket should perfectly match the winning numbers. You can also win other prizes when you have at least 2 numbers matching with the winning numbers. The numbers in El Gordo Lotto has specific preprinted numbers that range from 00,000 to 99,999. The tickets are numbered this way too so once all these numbers are sold, there will be no more left available.
In purchasing an El Gordo lotto ticket, don’t be surprised if there is no card to put your desired numbers. The preprinted tickets are being sold as tickets. You are buying a pre-printed ticket. Yes, the system automatically allocates these numbers. The draw is performed by two children, one taking a ball from the lottery number sphere and the other from the prize sphere. During the draw, there are two spherical vessels used or “bombos”, the big one of the two contains several tens of thousands of small wooden balls, each with a unique 5-digit ticket number on it. 1787 balls made of wood are contained on the smaller sphere. The balls each have a corresponding prize on it. It also has 13 balls that serve as the balls for the major prizes. Both the spheres are revolving while a ball is simultaneously taken from each of them. The draw is being done by taking one ball from each sphere at the same time. One of the aforementioned spheres contains the 66,000 possible numbers of the draw, with 1,787 prizes to be won.
Balls are extracted from both spheres simultaneously until all the prizes have been won. Tickets have roughly a 1:7 chance of winning any prize. Prizes are many so there are more chances of winning even if it is not the major prize. Some minor prizes get €1,000 each. If the last two digits of an ElGordo Lotto ticket match the last two digits of the winning ticket (even the second and third winning tickets), the said prize is given to them. The last digits of the tickets that are the same with the winning numbers also get a prize of €200.
