Have you got your lottery tickets for tomorrow?

[Guanche]

Because it's probably too late now!! The Spanish 'El Gordo' lottery which is being held tomorrow is one of the largest lotteries in the world. The tickets cost 20€ but they normally have a 3€ addition for charity. I should have posted before but the wife just reminded me. Think the wife's got one and shares in a few more. Total prize money for last year was over 2,520,000,000€.

There is a second chance if you feel the need to get tickets for El Niño on the 6th Jan. Tickets are the same price. The total prize money of 840 million with a top prize of 120 million.


Fingers crossed!!

[Janet]

no, but good luck to you!!

[poker]

Dident buy any also .
Had a good meal with the money as it was the last day of the world . lol

Good luck hope you win .)

[El Profesor]

This really is daylight robbery. Yet also a fascinating masterpiece of marketing for the masses.

The tickets cost 200€ not 20€. What you buy for 20€ is one tenth of a ticket.

20€The sad thing is that the less money a carrot has, the more tickets they are likely to buy.

So let's say we are lucky, and out of millions, we win the big fat one - El Gordo - ....... It landed in Tenerife or you swapped one with your sister in Albacete - Happy Christmas indeed -  a ticket wins 4,000,000€
But if you have spent 20€on a tenth, then it is only 400,000€ ! ......  not to be sniffed at, a life changing sum ..... but hardly "I won the lottery" - you keep working.
The third prize will net you a measly 50,000€
and Eight numbers in the whole country will win the fifth prize of 60,000€ for a ticket ...... that's 6,000 for your tenth.

OK ... about 10,000 people get their money back and a hell of a lot of people win a cheerful little something, but you have an 85% chance of losing all of your 20€

This crap is marketed to the gullible as tradition, with cute kids singing the prizes on the telly.
They take in 3,6 billion € - The government will keep about 1,2billion € - and it is widely known as "El impuesto de los tontos"
Next year they start taxing the winnings too. 

Bah humbug!

[Nova]

Yup, I'm afraid I bought two = €40 through work, simply because if we win anything, I want to win twice as much as my colleagues 

[Michael]

Let me know if anyone wins so I can send my standard begging letter. 

[Janet]

I so agree, Prof ... BUT someone in Las Américas will have a very merry Christmas! Not el gordo, I know, but the bonoloto ...

El único acertante de primera categoría (6 aciertos) en el sorteo de la Bonoloto de hoy, viernes, que validó su boleto en Playa de las Américas (Tenerife), ha ganado un premio de 353.350,09 euros.


Combinación ganadora: 2 - 6 - 15 - 19 - 42 - 44
Complementario: 17; reintegro: 3

Reparto de premios:

Categoría....................Acertantes...............Premio....

1ª (6 aciertos).......................1..............353.350,09 euros
2ª (5 aciertos + C)...................3...............62.817,79 euros
3ª (5 aciertos)......................65................1.449,64 euros
4ª (4 aciertos)...................4.619...................32,30 euros
5ª (3 aciertos)..................88.391....................4,00 euros

Reintegro.....................1.165.622....................0,50 euros

El único boleto acertante de primera categoría (6 aciertos) en el sorteo de este viernes ha sido validado en el despacho receptor número 68.415 de Playa de las Américas (Tenerife), situado en la avenida de los Pueblos nº 26. Además, han aparecido tres boletos acertantes de segunda categoría (5 aciertos + Complementario), que han sido validados en Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), en Sevilla y en Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid).

Link

[Janet]

... AND they're saying that the first prize in the el gordo was for a series sold in Santa Cruz and Puerto de la Cruz among other places.

I know it's quite literally a lottery, and I don't buy the tickets myself, but this will hopefully make a difference in a part of Spain that is so suffering right now ...

[El Profesor]

I so agree, Prof ... BUT someone in Las Américas will have a very merry Christmas! Not el gordo, I know, but the bonoloto ...

Yes the Bonoloto is something else, it costs mere cents to play, and if you win, you really win.

I quite often play the Primitiva. You could get massively rich with that too.
If you play, you buy the daydream.

I know it's quite literally a lottery, and I don't buy the tickets myself, but this will hopefully make a difference in a part of Spain that is so suffering right now ...

Quite how removing 1.2 billion euros from the poorest in society at Christmas helps alleviate suffering I don't imagine. But I suppose its all fun, little boys singing numbers, footage of people dancing in the streets ........ it could have been us. If we aren't completely cleaned out there's El Niño next week ... we can buy the daydream.

The government must be bemused . . . . the more they trample the people, the more tax income they get from lottery tickets. They actually sold more than last year.

Sorry .... I'm off for a drink of Christmas spirit.

[Guanche]

Well it would seem that the wife won her money back. Nothing gained nothing lost except a few euros for charity.
As you explain it Prof it is a bit of a rip off. I must admit I like so many got caught up in the sprit of it all. But as you quite rightly point out it's money for old rope for the government. You're taxed at the point of sale and your taxed on any winnings above 3,000€, I think thats the amount and it's, according to the wife, 10%!

To win anything on the scale of the normal weekly lotteries you have to pay 200€ Thats probably more than the wife spends on the weekly lotteries in a year!

Think we'll give the El Niño a miss.