Six Popular Raffles and How to Check if YOU Have That Winning Ticket

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Raffle lotteries are all the rage these days and theLotter players can enter a range of twice-weekly, monthly and annual draws. Every raffle has fixed prize fund, number of prizes and prize amounts. Join us as we look at six of the world’s most popular raffle lottery draws and tell you how to confirm if you have won!

1. Loteria de Navidad – Spanish Christmas Lottery

Held every December 22nd, Loteria de Navided is offered by Loteria Nacional in Spain and in 2013 has a €2,240,000 prize fund to distribute. Players select full tickets or individual shares called decimos (tenths) with a 5-digit numerical raffle code from 00,000 to 99,999.

As you would expect, the most important set of numbers on this tenth of a ticket are in the biggest font, 01010 in this example. Should this share win first prize, its owner would be entitled to a €400,000 prize and should a Loteria de Navidad player hold a full ticket with the first prize winning number, they will be entitled to an enormous €4,000,000 windfall!

There 160 copies of each full ticket, meaning that the first prize fund is worth just under 30% of the total prize fund. is worth €640,000,000. C [...]

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