Countdown to El Gordo Spanish Lottery
08/11/2010 10:21:59
Forget the countdown to Christmas, it’s countdown to El Gordo Spanish Lottery in the world lottery offices as Spain gears up for the El Gordo ‘The Fat One’. So why are we so excited about this? Well this annual lottery draw is the richest in the world, attracting players from all over the world and boasts a prize fund of over €2 billion! The El Gordo de Navidad takes place on 22nd December and is bigger than Christmas in Spain, where whole communities club together to buy lottery tickets.
The El Gordo de Navidad is the biggest of the three annual El Gordo Spanish Lottery draws and is huge. Lottery tickets are on sale all year for the draw and it’s this that helps raise that prize fund to the estimated €2 billion on offer every year.
Over the years, holidaymakers to the many Spanish towns and islands bought tickets for the draw on their yearly summer holiday and then kept them safe for months, but now thanks to the Internet you don’t need to do that. Lottery tickets for the El Gordo Spanish Lottery are available easily from anywhere in the world by clicking the banner above.
The draw itself is a huge event in Spain and takes around five hours to complete and when you look at the odds of winning, it’s easy to see why. One in three El Gordo Spanish Lottery tickets win a prize and a massive 70% of lottery ticket sales is given back out in prize money, so forget Christmas, it’s the countdown to El Gordo and there’s not long left!
Written by Lucy Lotto
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