According to the State Society of Lotteries and Betting, each Spaniard spent an average of 66.60€ in 2021. Why are Spanish people so obsessed with lottery tickets?
In Spain, the first Primitive lottery game was played in 1763 during the reign of the king Carlos III, and over the years playing the lottery became a tradition in Spain.
There are numerous lottery games available in Spain, the majority of them are run by the State Lotteries and Bets (LoterÃas y Apuestas del Estado), The ONCE and Red Cross.
There are 5 most popular lotteries:
Primitive Lottery (La Primitiva)
National Lottery (LoterÃa Nacional)
National Organization of the Blind (ONCE)
Bonoloto
and 2 European draws: EuroJackpot Lottery and EuroMillions Lottery
#1 La Primitiva
It is one of the oldest and most popular lotteries in Spain.
It consists of selecting six numbers in a table of 49 ordered from 1 to 49, today it costs 1€ for each bet.
There are two modes: simple and multiple.
Simple with the maximum number of 8 bets per ticket, where you must select six numbers for each bet
Multiple it’s when you want to play more than six numbers in the same bet or block.
You can also play the Joker, a complementary number that is drawn to give the opportunity to increase the prize of whoever has matched the five numbers of the winning combination of six.
#2 National lottery
It is the most important lottery in Spain. It has been held every year since 1812. This Spanish lottery is the 2d longest continuously running lottery in the world. It was running even during the years of the Spanish Civil War.
If you wanna take part in this game you should know words like: el billete, el décimo, el número, and la serie.
Un boleto is a ticket which is divided into series, tickets and tenths of the full ticket.
Un Billete is a full ticket which would cost you 200€, it’s divided into 10 or 10 décimos of the same number that belong to the same series.
1 décimo costs 20€
Un Número is the main five-digit number of a ticket or a décimo.
Una Serie is a set of billetes with the same number.
There is another subdivision of decimos, commonly called participación which costs less than 20€.
Draws are held weekly, on Thursdays and Saturdays, and several extraordinary draws, like the Christmas lottery and Father’s day lottery, are held once per year.
The prize money is different from each lottery draw and the top prize is called el Gordo or the fat one. Also there is a rule if the last number of your ticket matches el Gordo you can get your 20€ back.
The Christmas lottery (LoterÃa de Navidad) is the most popular and famous lottery draw in Spain. You can start buying the tickets in July. The draw takes place in Teatro Real in Madrid on December 22. You can watch it live on TV or a livestream. The San Ildefonso school's students draw and sing the winning numbers and prizes to the public.
They use 2 large spherical cages. The largest one contains 100,000 small wooden balls, each with a unique 5-digit ticket number on it, from 00000 to 99999. The smaller cage contains 1,807 balls, each one representing a prize of a full ticket in Euros:
1 ball for El Gordo is €4 million
1 ball for the second prize €1,250,000
1 ball for the third prize a half a million €
2 balls for the fourth prizes 200,000€
8 balls for the fifth prizes €60,000
1,794 balls for the small prizes, called la Pedrea €1,000
All prizes would be around 2.4 billion € which makes it the biggest lottery draw in the world.
In the Christmas Lottery, the chance of winning the jackpot is 1 in 100,000.
If you have a full ticket with the winning number you will get around €4 million and if you have one décimo you would win around €400,000.
Spaniards get tickets with the same number and give them to their loved ones as a Christmas gift. In reality the Spanish Christmas lottery isn't about how much money the winners receive in prizes, but it's about the idea of splitting the prize with loved ones and it is what distinguishes this lottery from others.
#3 Bonoloto
It has been running from 1988, and it has become one of the most popular draws in Spain because it is one of the cheapest ones. With 50 cents for a bet you can win thousands of euros. The Bonoloto works in a very similar way to the Primitive and it was designed as its alternative.
#4 EuroJackpot
It consists of matching 5 numbers out of 50 possible numbers and 2 suns out of 12 suns. The Eurojackpot draw is held every Tuesday and Friday in Helsinki, offering huge jackpots every week, with a guaranteed minimum jackpot of €10,000,000 that grows from week to week in the event that there are no top-notch winners. You can buy Eurojackpot tickets in an ONCE shop.
#5 EuroMillion.
You have to choose a minimum of 5 numbers (from 1 to 50) and two stars (from 1 to 12) to place each bet. If you don’t have any particular preference the system can select random numbers for you. The price of a bet is €2.50. And the prize money is around 200,000,000€
There are also sports betting like la Quiniela, Quinigol and Lototurf
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