How to Play the Spanish National Lottery

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The National Lottery game is basically a ten numbers wager, and before you start playing there are some concepts that it would be useful for you to understand:

National Lottery draws consist of 100.000 numbers, from 00.000 up to 99.999.

Each number from 00.000 to 99.999 comprises a separate ticket. Each ticket is known as a serie.

Series are at the same time divided into ten dècimos. A dècimo is the tenth part of a ticket or serie, so, a whole ticket or serie comprises ten dècimos.

Tickets or series are sold by dècimos.

To start playing you must first buy as many dècimos as you want from any authorised lottery store. To buy a whole lottery ticket you would have to buy ten dècimos of the same series. The quantity of series available depends on the draw; the National Lottery (Loterìa Nacional) and Thursday’s Lottery (Loterìa del jueves).

National Lottery (Loterìa Nacional) – This takes place every Saturday, and is divided into 10 series. This draw boasts the biggest prizes.

Thursday`s Lottery (Loterìa del Jueves) – This takes place every Thursday, and is divided into 6 series. The cost of the dècimos to participate in this draw is much lower than the ones for the National Lottery, but the prizes are smaller.

When the time for the draw arrives, five numbers are drawn from five different lottery drums. This process takes place twice in order to determine the first and the second prizes. Those players who are in possession of the dècimos that match with the numbers drawn from the lottery drums are deemed to be the winners.

During the draw, two additional numbers are extracted from the lottery drums. If these numbers match the ones on your dècimo (appearing as fracciòn and serie especial, you will win a secondary prize.

The Lotería Nacional also appears as a Special Draw at certain times of the year.

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