But this is also on top of the normal jackpot draw, currently sitting at a cool €29 Million.

How come you’ve not heard about it.

Because only UK players get a chance for these bonus EuroMillions prizes.

(Tip: I’ll tell you in a moment how you can play in this draw from outside the UK – it’s easier than you think)

The UK has an add-on game called Millionaires Raffle – every EuroMillions ticket bought in the UK gets printed with an extra unique raffle number. And one of those numbers wins £1 Million every single draw (Tuesday and Friday).

The big deal though is this Friday (23rd December).

Because this Friday is Millionaire Friday.

EuroMillions (UK) are paying out 25 x £1 Million prizes for this draw only!

Now that has to be a draw worth playing.

There’s THREE extremely good reasons why.

1. For exactly the same ticket price, you now get 25 times the chance to win a million. On top of your chances of winning EuroMillions itself of course.

(Technically it’s not exactly 25 times because more people will play this draw than normal, so it may be more like 15 – 20 times, but I’m not complaining!)

2. This bonus game is a raffle (like a prize draw) not a lottery. Which means 25 tickets in this draw must win a million.

3. Only the UK play Millionaires Raffle. And they are only 1 of the 9 countries who play EuroMillions. Which means you already beat the other 8 countries to the money if you buy a ticket in the UK.

Buying EuroMillions Tickets From The UK

If you live in the UK, no problem, you can get your tickets anywhere and you’re OK. (Or you can buy online from the official national lottery site too).

Outside the UK, you still have some options.

1. Get a friend in the UK to buy tickets for you. Make that a trusted friend.
2. Buy online from a 3rd party ticket seller. Typical an expensive way to play, but sadly I couldn’t find any that bought their tickets in the UK anyway – so if you know one add a comment below and I’ll let everyone know.
3. Play in a syndicate that buys tickets in the UK. I’ve found 3 that do: Big Fat Lottos, Love My Lotto and Tips 4 Winning. All are good reliable syndicates so choose the one you like best.

Play This Draw – It’s A Gift!

Look, it’s not often you get these ‘Superdraws’ so don’t miss them when they come up.

This is a no cost way to instantly get a significantly better chance of winning. Which is just the right kind of occasion to be spending your squirreled away winnings pot.

You know, the ‘save the small wins for a Superdraw’ pot.

Unless you already spent it on pizza

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3. NEWS: EuroMillions Superdraw Hits €129 Million

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That’s right, crazy time = the Spanish Christmas El Gordo lottery.

You know, the once a year draw with the prize fund of €2.5 BILLION!

This is a behind the scenes video shot during last years draw. The stage is somewhere behind all the mad melee.

If you watch closely you’ll see the school children from San Ildefonso picking up the balls drawn from the machine. It’s tradition that pairs of children from the school are involved every year.

They sing out the winning numbers whilst they deliver each of the lucky winning balls to the officials sat at their desk overseeing the madness.

This is El Gordo – Normal Rules Do Not Apply

For those who haven’t seen it before, the level of excitement is pretty odd just for a lottery draw.

Spain as a whole loves the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw. It’s part of being Spanish to play in the draw.

So it’s also part of being Spanish to spend hours watching the big draw on TV.

And it does take hours too. About 3 hours in all.

That’s because El Gordo pays out thousands of different prizes. And each prize is also drawn out of a ball machine too.

So first they draw a winning number from one machine, then the prize that ball has won from the next machine.

Can You Imagine Watching This Live On TV?

You already know your number has won, but you then have to sit and watch them draw the amount. It could be €100 or it could be €4 Million..!

Now there’s a tense few seconds in anyones life

There are actually hundreds of jackpot prizes too. Nothing massive, just lots of them – which is just the way it should be. (Who cares if 1 person wins 200 Million, I want to see 100 of you win 2 Million!)

Here’s just the top prizes for El Gordo 2011:-

• 180 x €4 Million prizes
• 180 x €1.25 Million prizes
• 180 x €500,000 prizes
• 360 x €200,000 prizes
• 1,440 x €60,000 prizes

There’s about a bajillion more prizes beyond the major ones too.

Playing El Gordo

I always give El Gordo a play. Tickets are more expensive than most lottery draws, but it’s great fun for a once a year punt.

WARNING: Buying El Gordo tickets online is a mine field!

You can buy tickets from various online ticket sellers. But what you get for your money does vary dramatically.

A standard ‘decimo’ ticket costs €20 if you buy it from a vendor in Spain. So if you can, buy them yourself or get a friend in Spain to.

Online, expect to pay double. But don’t get stung by the rip-off companies who charge a lot more than that.

Or if you want the easy option (the one I use these days) join me in one of these El Gordo syndicates. This costs a one-off £20 and gives you a share in 10 decimo tickets. So 10 times the chance of winning.

It’s good honest crazy fun.

You probably won’t see the El Gordo draw live, unless you have a satellite feed from Spain (or er, live there!) – so I’ll make sure I post up a list of all the winning numbers as soon as I have them.

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3. El Gordo Results 2010

I know, I know, the anticipation is killing me too!

So here’s the big ElGordo prize winning numbers:-

Full El Gordo Results

You can download a pdf file of the full El Gordo results if you want to check all the numbers. (Note: right click the link and choose ‘Save Link As’ if you want to keep the file)

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Which makes the jackpot this Friday one of the biggest seen at a rather crazy €129 Million.

UK players are hoping this will be a home win, creating the largest UK EuroMillions winner ever. The current record holder is Les Scadding from Newport in South Wales who banked a mere £45.5 Million in November 2009. If a single player hit the jackpot this Friday they would win around £113 Million.

Want To Play..?

If you want to play this Friday but with a better chance of winning. And you wouldn’t mind sharing the jackpot, then think about playing with these guys. You get 36 times the chance of winning, and you could still walk away with a couple of million each.

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The big crazy Spanish Christmas lottery draw is now over for 2009.

Life in Spain can return to normal once more – well, back to preparations for Christmas celebrations anyway.

El Gordo Winning Numbers

The winning number of the big prize was 78294. And winners stories are already beginning to appear. One of the big winners was a work syndicate at troubled Spanish travel company Viajes Marsans. Great news for a company who were in the process of making a large numer of their staff redundant.

There are thousands of numbers, and tens of thousands of prizes with El Gord. If you want to check your numbers here’s the full El Gordo results.

€2.3 Billion of El Gordo Prizes Won

When the dust settles this superdraw lottery will have paid out an incredible 2.3 billion Euros to winners. Just for this one draw. It doesn’t have anything like the biggest jackpot, but it is still the biggest lottery in the world.

Did you play this year? Did you win? Let us know below.

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Seriously, the entire country comes to a halt when this ONCE A YEAR draw hits.

The draw process takes HOURS because there are so many prizes. It’s quite a bizarre thing to watch the enormous draw machine, with all the results and prizes sung out by children from a local school (El Gordo draw).

It’s THE biggest lottery draw in the world. No other game has a bigger prize fund, OR pays out as many prizes.

Welcome to the Spanish ‘El Gordo’ (or ‘The Fat One’).

World’s Biggest Prize Fund

This draw pays out a prize fund of BILLIONS.

Not millions, but Billions!

But they are clever enough to keep the prizes smaller BUT pay a lot more of them. Unlike certain dumb mega-draws that insist on paying 200 million to just one prize winner… duh!

These are just the bigger prizes:-

• 195 x €3 Million prizes
• 195 x €1 Million prizes
• 195 x €500,000 prizes
• 390 x €200,000 prizes
• 1,560 x €50,000 prizes

World’s LONGEST Draw

And these are genuine different prizes. They draw tens of thousands of numbers from a huge drum, and each one wins a different prize.

The whole draw takes place on TV, and all of Spain is gripped with excitement, for HOURS!

It’s like some weird mass hypnosis voodoo or something.

Strictly Limited Ticket Supply

You can’t pick your numbers with this draw. You can only buy pre-printed tickets. Which means this once a year draw has a limited supply of tickets – by design.

Once they are sold out, that is it.

A large chunk are reserved by Spanish families – some numbers you just cannot ever buy. Seriously!

So if you want to play, now is the time.

I’ve only played this one for the last 2 draws. Last year I found a better supplier which was way cheaper, and I won and got paid a few small prizes.

I’m using the same guys again this year for El Gordo. I reckon the only way to get better value is if you live in Spain! So you can do a LOT worse than play with these guys.

See you in the big draw .

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(And yup, that’s how it goes for HOURS..! Every prize and every winning number is drawn – then sung out by kids from the local school. All of Spain is gripped the whole way through.)

El Gordo is the massive once a year Christmas lottery draw – it has a ridiculous prize fund of BILLIONS.

Here’s why I like it though:-

It pays out thousands of big prizes NOT crazy amounts to just a few people. And that means much better chances of winning a big prize – because there are so many more of them. Not to mention the HUGE volume of smaller prizes too.

Makes sense right? (Try telling the folks who run US Mega Millions…)

You have to be careful where you buy tickets for El Gordo though – a lot of online places will charge you stupid amounts.

(I played with these guys last year – good service, decent price, won a few small prizes and got paid promptly – so I’m playing with them again this year).

Bet your country has nothing like this for a lottery draw..?

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So what is a SuperDraw?

Two important things. First, it basically means a very big jackpot – this time it’s 125 Million Euros. And that’s a good time to play your saved up entries.

But second, and most important of all. It means a guaranteed jackpot payout, and that can be very exciting indeed.

Normally when nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, the jackpot prize pool rolls over to the next draw. That’s what a ‘rollover’ is, and how we got to last weeks huge jackpot when it rolled over five times in a row.

But with a Superdraw, EuroMillions will pay out that 125 million GUARANTEED. So if nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, that 125 million is rolled down to the next prize level, and the next prize level, until they find someone they can give it to!

They normally only do this after 11 rollovers!

Essentially that means you could have a much better chance of winning the jackpot in a SuperDraw. Why? If you assume nobody matches all the numbers, then you have less numbers to match than usual to get the jackpot, and a huge jackpot too.

That makes a EuroMillions Superdraw a very special beast, and one I recommend playing.

Play in my favourite syndicate and you get enough entries to guarantee you match both lucky stars anyway – so add that to a SuperDraw, and things get pretty exciting. If you want to play with us you can join here (don’t hang around though, the big day is Friday 26th September 2008 so you want to make sure you are in well before then).

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So are we about to see the richest ever Australian lottery winner?

The highly popular Australian Powerball game was made to pay out very big prizes – and very big jackpot winners. Previously, the largest ever lottery wins have been more than $30 million only 4 times. And that’s since the game launched back in 1996, making the draw this week a very special event for all Australians.

Who were the other big winners?

Three of those huge jackpots were winners from the Powerball game, with one each from Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Oz Lotto provided the fourth biggest win.

Oz Lotto has also created the biggest ever Australian lottery prize to date. And it happened just a few weeks ago. A very nice 1st division prize of $47 Million was claimed on 29 April 2008. It was shared by just 2 winning tickets, both bought in Sydney’s western suburbs. One was by a young man who claimed $24 Million, the other a syndicate of laboratory workers – who after sharing out the prize money still got $1.5 Million each to celebrate with.

If you want to join the fun for this historical draw there is an Australian Powerball syndicate you can join online. It’s open to players all over the world, so a great choice if you can’t get a ticket because you don’t live in Australia! And as a syndicate it goes without saying that you also get a better chance of winning too – particularly important if you want to play powerball draws which are tougher to win to start with.

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[1] The jackpot is a massive 130 Million Euros

Just imagine what you could do with even a small share of that?

[2] This Friday is a SuperDraw (read on to find why that is so special…)

SuperDraws Are VERY RARE!

They only do a couple of SuperDraws per YEAR. And when they do, we all want tickets!

SuperDraws are special because the jackpot CANNOT rollover. If nobody gets the full winning numbers, they give the jackpot away to the next prize level down!

That means your chances of winning 130 Million could be so much better than normal, for this Friday only.

Obviously, you should play in this draw!

Do NOT Wait, The Lottery Terminals Will Get Busy

Get your tickets for this draw today, because as we have seen in the past, big rollovers mean a last minute rush to buy tickets. Websites get slower, and lottery terminals have been known to fail under the load. That could mean you miss out if you wait.

You should do this now, either:-

[1] Buy tickets today before your local retailer gets too busy!

[2] Join a syndicate right now, today… go here for 36 EuroMillions entries for 5 UK pounds (NOTE: Sorry, NOT available to USA)

or,

[3] Buy tickets online, but do it today as the sites will get swamped later this week. Here’s a guide to buying EuroMillions tickets online

Hurry though, you only have a few days left.

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