History of the Primitive lottery
This lottery was proposed by Don Leopoldo de Gregorio, Minister of Finance, better known as Marqués de Esquilache and
created during the government of Carlos III. His goal was to get more money for the state coffers without increasing or
create a new tax. The first draw of the primitive lottery, very similar to the current ones, took place on December 10
of 1763. In this first draw, the collection was 187.500 real (75% destined for awards and 25% for the state.) In that
time, this lottery was known as “lottery by numbers”.
After a few 50 years (year 1812) a new type of lottery was born whose novelty was that the tickets already had a number printed,
This new lottery would be called "Modern Lottery", which gave rise to the current national lottery. At the same time the
"Lottery by Numbers" changed its name and was renamed as it is known today "Primitive Lottery", which continued
gambling until the Government abolished it in the year 1862.
More than a century later (year 1985) the Primitive Lottery was held again by ministerial order according to Royal Decree
1360/1985 of 1 of August, published in the BOE of 7 August 1985. The first draw was held on 17 October
of 1985 with an excellent collection where sales were 473.213.425 pesetas. Since then, the primitive
It took place every Thursday of each week. At first, each ticket had a cost of 25 pesetas.
The first winning tickets in this new stage came out during the fourth draw, in november 1985. A total of
3 top category winners who received 66 million pesetas each. That same month the primitive returned to
distribute another millionaire prize among 3 successful, graced with 125 million pesetas each.
Months later (July 1986) and given the popularity of the draw, the price of the bets was increased 50 pesetas, what he did
that will increase the prizes considerably. It was in November of that same year when a single winner took the first
of those great prizes, a total of 800 million pesetas.
In 1988 the price of the tickets went up again until 100 pesetas and in May 1989 one more day of raffle joined, the
Saturday primitive. This contracted the appearance of the “brown ticket,”Which allowed to play the two weekly draws (Thursday
and saturday).
With the arrival of the 21st century (year 2000) increased the price to play the Primitive lottery until 150 pesetas, what happened to be
of 1 euro after the entry of Spain into the European currency.
In the year 2005 La Primitiva celebrated its twentieth anniversary. For the celebration of these 20 years a special draw was issued
led by Jorge Fernández and Concha Velasco.
So far, the RECORD award in the entire history of the Primitive Lottery was delivered on 15 October 2015, when a single winner
from Barcelona obtained more than 101 Millions of euros.
The latest news was available from the draw held on 16 October 2010, adding that when in a draw no there would be successful
of First category, the fund of the same will be assigned automatically and continuously to the first category fund of the immediate Draw
posterior.
From the day 8 November 2012, and for the purpose of offering larger jackpots, a change in the award allocation of
the primitive, for which a new category called “Special Category”, which corresponds to the sum of the six numbers of the
winning combination plus payback.
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La Primitiva results
There are several categories of winnings. 45% the state receives from earnings on sold tickets, 10% goes to the refund of the cost of tickets, and the rest 45% amount spent on prize categories (22% Is the jackpot, 33% divided among the rest of the winners).
You can see the correspondence between the guessed numbers and the amount in the table:
- 5 + 0 — 33%
- 4 + 1 — 6%
- 4 + 0 — 7%
- 3 + 1 — 8%
- 3 + 0 — 26%
- 2 + 1 — 20%
- 2 + 0 — 3 euros
- 1 + 0 - ticket price
La Primitiva draw times
Draw takes place every Thursday and Saturday Spanish time. Should watch, what time is it in Madrid, to find out the lottery results in time. To be more precise, choose time zone UTC / GMT + 1 hour and win obscenely large sums to make your deepest desires come true!
