Spanish Lottery,women and El Gordo

The support behind a lottery programme can be extremely extensive.The gigantic ticket lotteries through their many channels of transmission albeit the traditional routes of straight forward ticket sales at a local stall or even, as  is the case more so these days, an online elottery proramme there is without doubt one common theme....Pay money for a ticket and take a chance.It doesnot matter whether the game of luck is being played in Peru, Australia or even downtown Scunthorpe the same appreciation is universal to every one.

My recent involvement with the psychology of gaming which in recent months centred around the skill games networks and platforms has now taken on a new angle with a very established area. The area being discussed is not too disimilar in its make up but interestingly enough shares some significant observations.

The focal observation is online lotteries such as the El Gordo, UK National  and Euro Millions are being played by more and more women  than ever before.In particular data show that since the Spanish lottery went online in 1996 a very high preponderence of players are female.My earlier studies of skill games showed  a very close alignment to this feature.If one attempts to examine more closely this point it transpires that women are shown to be more coherent in a technology sense.

The brief time I spent in Spain a few months ago actually accentuated this point and it became very noticeable that the girls certainly enjoyed playing the lottery and  it was becomming more wieghted to the computer based version as well.Fundamentally, the Matriarchal position in the household and the whole dominance of El Gordo actually gave direction to whom and even where the lottery tickets were purchased. I always remember a good friend of mine, in the town  of Vallodolid, who each Christmas would organise the purchase of tickets as well as the group to whom they would be allocated. Almost acting as the ticket Master she was certainly the best person to ask about the intricacies of the workings of El Gordo and for that matter El Gordo de la Primitiva,  a concurrent lottery with more draws and successive smaller prizes.

I will very shortly devout an full article to the actual mechanics of both and then make a comparison with some of the other leading lotteries in Europe such as Euro Millions .To be honest my friend in Spain was less interested in anything else other than her own beloved baby and for this I really tried to expaain how the other prorammes, elottery syndicates worked.The sheer history behind the Spanish version will take a life time to match.It is also about the fabulous tales surrounding that famous draw on December 22nd each year and of course the incredible amounts of Euros being won.

Moreover, the very dynamic of the lottery playing conoscenti is evolving and I will remark on my later findings when my studies have been completed.