El Gordo De Verano or Summer Gordo, as it is commonly called, is Spain’s popular summer raffle.
The summer equivalent of El Gordo, Spain’s Christmas lottery, El Gordo de Verano is the one of the biggest lottery events of the season, and more than 90% of the Spanish population look forward to this summer event each year.
The prize pool for 2017 is an amazing €140 million. Plus, with a better than 1 in 3 chance of winning, it’s no wonder that Summer Gordo is one of the most anticipated lottery events of the year!
El Gordo De Verano | Summer Gordo 2017: At a Glance
While there is so much to learn about Summer Gordo, here are the most important facts to keep in mind about Spain’s sizzling summer raffle!
- El Gordo De Verano is one of the world’s biggest one-day lottery event
- It’s drawn every year on July 1 in Madrid
- Your chances of winning a prize are better than 1 in 3
- You have a 1 in 100,000 chance of winning the top prize worth €2 million
- There are an incredible 363,000 cash prizes available
- 100,000 tickets are issued with numbers between 00,000 – 10,000
- Each ticket is divided into 10 parts called decimas
- Players can buy an entire ticket or as little as 1 decima for a portion of the winnings
El Gordo De Verano | Summer Gordo 2017: Format
As so many people take part in Summer Gordo, the format is slightly more complicated than a regular lottery. In fact, it is more like a raffle. There are 10,000 tickets printed out each year, with numbers from 00,000 to 99,999.
El Gordo De Verano has multiple series of tickets, which means that each ticket is printed out 10 times. This means multiple people might have the same ticket number, but they will win prizes according to the ‘series’ their ticket belongs to.
So this means that Summer Gordo has 10 top prizes worth €2 million each!
The last thing you need to know about Spain’s El Gordo De Verano is that each ticket is made up of 10 parts – called decimas. This means that players don’t need to buy the entire ticket, if they don’t want to. They can get shares of a ticket instead for a share of the winnings.
For instance, if you get 1 decima – which is 1/10th of a full ticket – you’ll receive 1/10th of the prize money if that ticket wins.
El Gordo De Verano | Summer Gordo 2017: Prize Table
With a 70% payout ratio, Summer Gordo is designed to create multiple winners! There are 363,001 prizes to win and 15 incredible prize categories. Check out the table below for the complete list of El Goro de Verano prize categories.
El Gordo De Verano | Summer Gordo 2017: History
Spain’s Summer Gordo is a nod to the summer season in Spain! It was formerly called the Sorteo Extraordinario Niños de San Ildefonso, which literally means the “Extraordinary Children Draw of San Ildefonso” as a tribute to the schoolchildren of San Ildefonso who sing the lottery results.
