How the draw ceremony takes place.
The drawing ceremony itself, almost unchanged since the 18th century. Sure, except, technical innovations - first the show began to be broadcast on the radio, and then on television. Two huge balls contain small bone balls. In one - with the amount of winnings, in the other - with ticket numbers.
The drawing takes place live on the Spanish state television. At this moment, almost the whole country freezes in front of TV screens, listening to chants sung by orphans from the school of San Ildefonso, произносящих выпавшие из барабана номера — дети достают кости и нараспев, to the motive of church psalms, - this is also a tribute to tradition - numbers tell.
What is El Gordo De La Primitiva?
One of the most popular national lotteries in Spain - El Gordo De La Primitiva, also called El gordo for short or simply la primitiva. Its useful to note, that there is a separate game called La primitiva, not to be confused with El Gordo De La Primitiva - these are different, although somewhat similar games.
Translated, El Gordo De La Primitiva means
"The fat woman among primitive lotteries", therefore the Spaniards often call her simply
"BBW" - El gordo. Together with several other Spanish national
she is part of the Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, a community of Spanish
lotteries.
Spanish El proudly has a very long and interesting history. Unlike many other American and European lotteries, El has been proudly played for about two centuries. They say, that one of the avid players in this Spanish game was the emperor of France Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
Whatever it was, but the first Spanish
national lottery Real, predecessor to El Gordo, was founded by the king of Spain
Carlos III
also in 1763 year. Then the profit received from its implementation was directed to the needs
replenishment of the Spanish budget. The draws were held at the Plaza de San at the time.
Ildefonso in the Spanish capital, and their rules did not differ much from modern
lotteries.
AT 1812 Real Madrid was renamed La
National lottery. Today a number of people consider themselves to be heirs of this lottery
Spanish national lotto, among which El Gordo is no exception.
As it stands El Gordo De La Primitiva
started in 1993 year. Она была запущена Lotteries and State Betting в
as a supplement to the la Primitiva lotteries that already existed by that time and
BonoLoto.
Her first draw took place 31 October
1993 Years and first time draws are held once a month, last sunday.
FROM 1997 of the year, as the popularity of the lottery grows, draws became weekly,
but they are also traditionally held on Sundays.
To participate in El Gordo de la Primitiva, just purchase a ticket. A man can do it,
attained 18 years of age. Any other restrictions on purchasing
tickets do not exist.
El Gordo adheres to the 'one
ticket - one winner ", although you can buy up to 20 lottery
tickets. It means, what if you bought, for example, 10 tickets el proud, and
all of them by a lucky coincidence turned out to be winning, then pick up
you can win with only one ticket - of course, Togo, on which you have
the largest amount came out.
