It was the year 1763 when King Carlos III established the so-called ‘Royal Lottery’. The social benefit provided by this lottery was one of the bastions at its birth; Thus, in the Royal Decree of September 30, 1763, the monarch indicated that “(…) I had as appropriate, and convenient to establish in Madrid a Lottery… so that it becomes a benefit of Hospitals, Hospices and other Pious and Public Works, in which many flows of my Real Treasury are consumed annually ”.
The game was a kind of Primitive Lottery in which you had to choose how many numbers you wanted from 1 to 90, in the extractions, a blindfolded boy took 5 balls out of a bag containing 90 balls. The first Lottery draw was held in the Plaza de San Ildefonso, in Madrid, where Loterías headquarters was located.
It took almost half a century for our National Lottery to arrive. It was in 1811, in Cádiz, where his creation was approved. However, until March 4, 1812 it was not the date marked in history as the birth of the National Lottery, as it is the day on which the first draw of its history was held. The bills were divided into quarters, instead of in tenths as it is today, each of which had an amount of ten reais. The former Royal Lottery was renamed National Lottery at that time.
It is in 1818 when a special raffle is organized coinciding with Christmas that can be considered as the origin of the Extraordinary Christmas Sweepstakes. Although it would not be until 1839 when the popular Christmas raffle begins to be held regularly; and we would have to wait until 1897 for the Christmas raffle to officially receive that name. In the 1880s, another of the emblematic draws appears: the El Niño draw.
Currently, the national lottery has raffles every week of the year, usually there is a raffle on Thursdays and Saturdays, both are similar differing only in price, and series for sale.
The draws for Thursday are currently priced at 3 euros per tenth, the issue is 100,000 numbers (from 00000 to 99999) and of each number there are 6 series with ten tenths each with its corresponding fraction.
The first prize amounts to 300,000 euros to the ticket or series, therefore € 30,000 to each tenth of the graceful number, there is also a second prize with € 60,000 to the ticket. These awards do not currently have any retention by the Ministry of Finance, charging the prize in full. For example, if you play a full number, you would pay € 180 (6 tickets at € 30 each), you would play only that number and the prize would be € 1,800,000 and would be tax free, provided it is purchased in traditional tenths, such as It would occur in our administration or on our website mi-suerte.com.
On Saturday draws, the current price can be € 6, € 12 or € 15 in the mall on Saturdays will be € 6, there being generally, a monthly one of greater amount, the € 15 draws have the incentive of having a special prize of 15 million euros for one of the 100 tenths that get the first prize, in those of twelve or six euros all the tenths charge the same in the case of obtaining the first prize, € 100,000 those of 12 and 60,000 those of 6 €.
In all national lottery draws, the state returns 70% of the issuance in prizes, regardless of the sale that occurs, it may be the case of giving more prizes than the amount sold, or the opposite of the state being the recipient of a prize if it has not been sold. This very high percentage of return, the highest of any state lottery in the world, means that in an ordinary draw if one plays 100 tenths with the 100 different endings, from 00 to 99, it is guaranteed to have 50% of its cost as a prize, without prejudice that it can have more prizes, that is to say in a draw of 3 euros with a cost of € 300 we have guaranteed 150 euros in safe prize, and if there is more luck then we have all the prizes of 3 or 4 figures, or the big prizes , that they could play.
