The El Gordo Lottery de Navidad is a Spanish Christmas lottery that is held annually on December 22. It is the world’s largest lottery by number of participants, with over 2.5 billion tickets sold each year. The jackpot is traditionally the largest in Europe, and has reached over €2 billion in recent years.
El Gordo is a raffle, which means that the winning numbers are drawn from a predetermined pool of numbers. This makes the odds of winning the jackpot much higher than in other lotteries, at 1 in 100,000. However, it also means that there can be multiple winners of the jackpot. Each ticket in El Gordo has a series number, which is a unique identifier. This means that there can be 170 winners of the jackpot, one for each series number. The same goes for all the other prize tiers.
El Gordo is a popular lottery in Spain, and is often seen as a way to bring good luck for the new year. The lottery is also a major source of funding for charities and social programs in Spain.
El Gordo weekly draw
There is a weekly draw for El Gordo as well, and you can buy tickets for it here at Jackpotlotteryonline.com. Tickets can be bought from Monday to Saturday in over 11,000 locations in Spain. The drawings are held every Sunday at 13:00 (GMT+1). Five numbers are drawn at random from 1 to 54, and then another number is drawn for the key number from 0 to 9.
El Gordo Prizes
The El Gordo lottery has a top prize of €400,000 per series, but it is shared among all the winners who have matched the winning numbers. In 2022, the top prize was shared among 170 series, so each winner received €2,352,941.18.
El Gordo also awards other prizes, such as €20,000 per series for numbers that match the last two digits of the winning number, and €1,000 per series for numbers that match the first three digits of the winning number. In total, El Gordo distributes over €170 million in prizes, making it a very attractive drawing.
Highest El Gordo Jackpot
The highest El Gordo jackpot was €2.4 billion, which was won in 2017. The winning numbers were 05, 17, 25, 28, 33, 48, and the key number was 09. The winning ticket was sold in the town of La Bruixa d’Or in Catalonia.
How to Play El Gordo
To play El Gordo, you need to buy a ticket that has two grids. The first grid has numbers from 1 to 54, and the second grid has numbers from 0 to 9. You need to pick five numbers in the first grid and one number in the second grid. The number you pick in the second grid is called the key number. You can also make multiple bets with the same ticket by selecting six to eleven numbers in the first grid. This means that you can have up to 462 different bets on the same ticket. Once tickets for this lottery are released, you can purchase them on our website. Our online service is also available to lottery players from the UK.