Playing in a Spanish Lotto syndicate with Big Fat Lottos is a unique way of playing one of the truly richest lotteries in the world – the Spanish National Lottery - Loteria Nacional - a syndicate with a difference, without doubt.

The Spanish National Lottery – Loteria Nacional – has various different lottery games and holds its main draws every week on Thursdays and Saturdays.

As well as these weekly draws however, once a month, the Spanish Lotto holds what it calls “Superdraws” or “Special Draws”.

These Spanish Lottery Superdraws offer much higher prize pools than their regular weekly draws and can amount to some of the highest lottery prize pools in the world ranging from €84 Million right up to a mind blowing €2.6 Billion.

One of the aims with the Loteria Nacional – especially the Spanish Lotto Superdraws – is to spread the wealth across as many people as possible so there is not just 1 jackpot winner but many thousands of lucky lottery winners.

Millions of people in Spain and across the world take part in these mega lottery draws every month and with the introduction of the Big Fat Lottos Spanish Lottery Superdraw Syndicates there is now a much better way to try and win a share in the massive Spanish Lotto prize pools available.

There are 12 Spanish Lotto Superdraws that are drawn a year – 1 per month.

9 of these massive draws have prize funds of €84 Million and the remaining 3 are more well-known and have prize pools of €150 Million, €850 Million and
€2.52 BILLION!

The biggest and most well-known Spanish Lotto draws are the El Niño which takes place in January and has a prize fund of €850 Million, the summer El Gordo “San Ildefonso” which takes place in July and has a pot of €850 Million and of course, the great Christmas El Gordo lotto with a prize pot amounting to a staggering €2.52 BILLION!

The Spanish Lotto Superdraws are drawn in a slightly differently way from most traditional lotteries. Firstly, a numbered ball with a ticket number is drawn from one drum and then another ball with a prize value is drawn from a separate drum.

The ticket number on the ball drawn from the first drum is matched with the prize on the ball drawn from the second drum and ticket holders with that number are winners of that prize.

As with the way it is drawn, you actually play the Loteria Nacional Special Draws in a slightly different way to other lotteries too.

You aren’t able to choose your own Spanish Lotto numbers but instead purchase a ticket that already has a pre-printed number on it. There are also series of tickets with the same numbers on.

The ticket system works like this…..each ticket number is available either 10 times, 35 times or 50 times - meaning that 10, 35 or 50 lots of tickets with the same number will be printed. These are called “series”.

Each of those “series” are actually one “whole” ticket which is called a “billette”. This is normally too expensive for most people at between €200 & €240 for a whole ticket (billette), so each “serie” is divided into 10 smaller tickets called “decimos” (ie.10ths) costing a more affordable €20 to €24.

So, you are able to purchase either a whole ticket (“billette”) or as many “decimos” (10ths) of a ticket that you wish.

Many families across Spain put their money together and share the cost of a whole “billette” as one of their lottery strategies to maximise their chances. Even some entire villages in Spain do this and Jackpots have indeed been won this way making a whole village rather wealthy in one go!

If you buy lottery tickets online, however, there are ways in which you are able to increase chances of winning lottery games such as the Spanish National Lottery Superdraws.