El Gordo And The e-Lottery Bombos

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El Gordo is and has been and forever will be the most sought after lottery in the world. Here are some of the facts for your consideration

If you plan to participate in the richest lottery anywhere in the world, these dates should be engraved into your recollection with gold foil: December 22nd (El Gordo de Navidad "The Fat One"), January 6th (Sorteo del Niño), and 5th July "The Summer Fat One". This is the only lottery which offers over €1.2 billion (around £650 million) in cash gifts.

The draw is made with two bowls or "bombos", and is customarily accompanied by singing orphan children of the San Iisdro school in Madrid and a lot of pageantry over-the-top shiny stuff - from jugglers and acrobats to the dresses worn by the glamorously beautiful assistants. The epiccan take roughly 3 hours from start to finish, but the whole country watches every single second.

Inside one of the bowls is contained the 66,000 possible numbers of the draw, and in the other are a set of balls with the prizes.

Balls are extracted from both bowls simultaneously until all of the prizes have been won. Tickets have roughly a 1:6 chance of winning any prize with around 2,500 of the 66,000 winning at least face value of the ticket.
The sums involved are large and it is not uncommon for an entire villages, factories and extended families to gang together to buy sets of tickets and then split the winnings amongst all of the members.

In Summary, elottery will soon to be adding the world famous El Gordo lottery to its currently very successful UK National Lotto and Euromillions syndicates. The exciting new game will be ready for December 2008 and in time for the mega - Billion Euro Christmas draw or Sorteo de Navidad as they would say in Spain. Taking part in one of eLottery's El Gordo syndicates will provide players a 20 times improved chance of sharing in the jackpot than playing as a solitary ticket holder.