How to Participate in the Spanish Christmas Lottery Draw

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Spanish Christmas Lottery known as Lotería de Navidad has firstly played in 1812. Before Christmas, on the 22nd of December millions of people waiting for the winning numbers.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery estimated jackpot is 2.240.000.000 EUR in 2013 ! In this year more than 27 million winning tickets are expected and they raffle until the whole prize fund is spent, and as a result they create millions of winners around the Globe. Winning the Spanish Christmas Lottery can create hundreds of winners in the same town.

On this special night nearly every man, woman and child in Spain gathers together to watch the Loteria De Navidad draw in the TV. Can you imagine that the whole nation take parts and now many people from foreign countries participate in the game.

New players can do the same, through Lottobroker website.

What makes the Spanish Christmas Lottery so unique is they raffle basically the 5 digits number code on the lottery ticket.

Here are some details about the drawing:

- 100.000 numbers from 00001-99999.

- Each number is available under 180 different serials and each serial has 10 tickets of the same number. Therefore every number is available 1,800 times. Altogether it is 100,000 numbers * 1,800 times = 180,000,000 tickets.

- Two drums are used for the raffle. One ball has the 100,000 of 5 digit numbers and the other has the 15.304 prizes.

- They pull a 5 digit number from the first drum, then they pull a prize to it from the second.

- Due to the huge number of prizes, the raffle takes up to 3 hours.

- 180 serials of 100,000 numbers, with 10 tickets each.

Estimated Jackpot: 2.240.000.000 Euros !

Info about the prize table.

In case of the Spanish Christmas Lottery Online, the winning numbers are basically the 5 digits numbers that are pulled from the first drum. Thus the prize categories are simple: if your 5 digit number is pulled from one drum and the "Gordo" prize is pulled from the second drum, then it means, that your 5 digit number won the "Gordo" prize.

It also means that altogether 1.800 tickets with the 5 digit number on them won the "Gordo" in that same case !