La Primitiva – Loteria Primitiva

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Loteria Nacional – Spanish Lottery

Loteria Primitiva – La Primitiva – is a lottery game offered by one of the oldest lottery organizations in the world – Loteria Nacional – the Spanish National Lottery – which is run, of course, by the government of Spain.

The company that runs all of the official Spanish Lottery games that you see offered on the internet and on the streets in Spain is Loterias del Estado – who's full title is Loterias y Apuestas del Estado.

Loteria Nacional – also known as the Spanish National Lottery – has been in existence since the year 1763 and this means that it is one of the oldest and most respected lottery organizations that exists anywhere in the world.

Out of all the lottery ticket sales generated by the Spanish Lottery – Loteria Nacional – 70% of funds paid in are put back into the Spanish Lotto prize pot, ie. they go right back to the players and this is the highest percentage from any world lottery game.

One of the principal goals of Loterias y Apuestas del Estado and the Loteria Nacional is to try and spread the wealth amongst as many of the Spanish people as possible and this is well achieved with large prizes being won and roughly 35 out of every 100 lottery tickets winning some kind of prize.

The ideology behind the various lottery games of the Loteria Nacional in Spain is based around sharing the highest number of lottery prizes between players and Loterias del Estado meets this aim with Spanish Lotto players having maximum chances of recouping their expenses at the same time as playing for some of the largest lottery prizes in the world.

The Loteria Nacional in Spain has numerous lottery games available including the well known EuroMillions game – the EuroMillones – BonoLoto, the Sunday Spanish Lottery game – the El Gordo de la Primitiva, La Quiniela, Loteria Nacional – the Spanish National Lottery on Thursdays and Saturdays, the biggest lottery in the world – the El Gordo – Loteria de Navidad plus the twice weekly 6/49 game that we will be looking at here…the popular Loteria Primitiva – La Primitiva…

La Primitiva – Overview

La Primitiva – Loteria Primitiva is the favourite lottery among the Spanish people and is the most popular of the weekly Spanish Lotto games.

As its name implies La Primitiva (The Primitive One) is a very old lottery game and was first introduced way back in 1763 with the first draw taking place in Madrid on December 10th of that year.

Way back then the Loteria Primitiva was a pick 5 numbers from a possible 90 game and this lasted until 1862.

The Loteria Primitiva was reintroduced to the Spanish National Lottery portfolio in 1985 and is again one of the favourites drawn twice per week on Thursdays and Saturdays at 9.30pm CET.

La Primitiva – How It Works

The Spanish Lottery – La Primitiva – Loteria Primitiva uses a single matrix of 6/49 meaning that when you play the Primitiva you need to select 6 numbers out of a pool of numbers ranging from 1 to 49.

If you match all 6 of the main numbers you will be the lucky winner of a Loteria Primitiva jackpot prize.

There are many other cash prizes to be won too with the Loteria Primitiva and in total there are 5 different ways in which you can win on this great and historical Spanish lotto game.

Other prize categories are for matching 5 of the main numbers plus an additional number, 5 of the main numbers, 4 of the main numbers or even just 3 of the main numbers drawn.

A facility is available when playing the Loteria Primitiva similar to the “Lucky Dip” that is used in the UK National Lottery or Europe’s EuroMillions – which means that you can choose to let the computer's or retailer's lotto number picker select your numbers for you using the "Quick Pick" option– saving you time.

So, playing the Loteria Primitiva is easy…just select your own 6 numbers or let the computer or retailer generate them automatically for you using a random number generator.

The cost per line on the Loteria Primitiva is the standard amount of €1.00.

La Primitiva – Who Can Play?

In the past – to play in any of the Spanish National Lottery games run by Loterias y Apuestas del Estado you needed to be a resident of Spain itself in order to take part.

Nowadays you can play lottery online, however, with accredited and authorized lottery ticket sales companies such as TheLotter or WinTrillions – you can participate in the fun, no matter where in the world you live.

This applies to the Loteria Primitiva and most of the Spanish Lotto games available and you can pick your Spanish Lottery numbers online and purchase your Loteria Primitiva tickets whether you live in Spain or anywhere else around the world.

This is excellent news if you live outside of Spain but want to play in some of the world’s biggest lotteries and ensure your entry into the next draw or just simply wish to enjoy the convenience of being able to buy lottery tickets online.

You must be 18 years of age to be eligible to buy lottery tickets for any of the Loteria Nacional games including La Primitiva.

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