El Gordo 2018: the drawing of The Spanish Christmas lottery takes place on October 22. December 2018 instead. So you can see the Event live on TV and live stream.
Madrid – Saturday , 22. December is one of the biggest Events of the year and the start of the Spanish Christmas season: “El Sorteo de Navidad” – the drawing of the Lotto numbers at Christmas in Spain. For over 200 years, the Spanish Christmas lottery exists and is the oldest and largest lottery in the world. In the Jackpot of more than 2.38 billion(!) Euro. The main prize, “El Gordo”, is four million euros and in English means “The fat”. On merkur.de** you can follow the draw of the Spanish Christmas lottery “El Gordo” in the live Ticker.
El Gordo 2018: 15,000 in prizes to win
El Gordo are getting only a total of 100,000 ticket numbers (00000 Piabet to 99999). It all 15.304 prices are omitted. Thus, the chance of winning a Lot is about 15 %. This is significantly higher than in the case of the German lottery. About one in every six of Los wins! A whole lot will cost around 200 Euro.
How to play from Germany in the case of “El Gordo”, you can in our summary of the Spanish Christmas lottery read.
drawing of the Spanish Christmas lottery: The mode, in the case of “El Gordo” 2018
draw around “El Gordo” is unique in its kind: In two different-sized drums of 100,000 wooden balls, on the other hand, the 15,000 bullets that symbolize the gains are on the one hand, the lot numbers accordingly. Always at the same time a ball falls out of each drum, and thus constitutes a winner along with his prize. These are then of two students of the “Colegio San Ildefonso” from Madrid. It is so long procedure, until all the prizes are drawn.
In the case of the Spanish Christmas lottery is not only about “El Gordo”, but also to the many small prices, which are up for grabs.
Attention: Because of the large popularity of the Spanish Christmas lottery are divided by the entries in so-called series. 2018 there are 170 series sold. This means that does not exist, each of the 100,000 ticket numbers 170 Times . Thus, the opportunity to win 170 Times the main prize of four million Euro. The profit is thus distributed to all of the winners.
The Spaniards generally buy in whole Lots, as they are to you with 200 Euro to tax. Therefore, so-called “Décimos have naturalized” – Tenths of tickets. For around 20 euros you have the chance to win 400,000 euros (a tenth of the main prize) with the lot number of the “El Gordo”.
El Gordo 2018: when is the draw?
Up to Saturday, 22. December, at 8:00 o’clock in the morning – an hour before the start of the draw – you can buy the Spanish Christmas lottery tickets. To 9:00 in the morning the draw starts then. In Spanish, it is Tradition to follow the four-hour live drawing on television. This is not least due to the charming way that the children sing to the winner. For years, the draw of the Spanish Christmas lottery recorded ratings of more than 50 percent.
the drawing of The Spanish Christmas lottery takes place in the “Teatro Real” in Madrid. The event of the state lottery “Loterías y Apuestas del Estado”, which prints the tickets. Viewers can also participate directly in the draw, the places for this are limited, however. Some particularly interested spectator camping even in front of the front door to receive the next day the inlet.
El Gordo 2018: So you see the drawing of the Spanish Christmas lottery live on TV
One must note, however, that the Live Broadcasts are in Spanish . A good knowledge of this language are, therefore, useful to keep track of everything. However, it is interesting to see how the Spanish Christmas lottery expires.
on German television, the draw of “El Gordo” 2018 is not transmitted. However, there are ways to receive Spanish channels in Germany. The Transfer of the draw of the Spanish Christmas lottery, the broadcaster “Radiotelevisión Española” (RTVE) runs with the channel “TVE”.
According to the information technicians-master, Heribert Neumeier, the Transfer of the draw of the Spanish Christmas lottery for TV viewers in Germany is not a Problem. You can receive the channel via the Astra satellite 19.2° East . “Viewers of satellite channels only need to start a channel search and the channel ‘TVE’ and ‘TVE Internacional Europe’. This should then be freely available.“
Neumeier adds: “In the case of television viewers with cable connection of the channels of the respective provider depends on it. On its Homepage one can read but, what are the foreign channels offered.“
El Gordo 2018: to trace the drawing of the Spanish Christmas lottery in the Live-Stream
If you have no way to trace the drawing of the Spanish Christmas lottery on television, you need not despair, however: RTVE offers a Live Stream for the draw, “El Gordo”. The Stream starts on Saturday, 22. December 2018 to 8:00 PM .
the drawing of The lottery Gordo numbers for the “El” in 2018, you can watch as well, using your Computer or mobile devices such as your Smartphone and Tablet. For Android, download users, the free App of RTVE in the Google Play Store or Apple users in the iTunes Store.
editors ‘ note: make Sure that you have Watching the Live stream to have a stable Wi-Fi connection. The terminal is not connected to the Wi-Fi, it can cause your monthly mobile data volume is quickly used up. Thus, in the worst case, high follow-up costs for you.
to get in the mood for the drawing, see you here, “Danielle”, the short version of the promotional film for the Spanish Christmas lottery in 2018.
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