The answer is YES, as reported by the Spanish Gaming Regulation (Law 13/2011) a tourist ca play Spanish Lottery and claim a big prize.

In Spain there is no residency condition for buying and winning the Spanish Lottery (El Gordo, La Primitiva, Bonoloto and Loteria Nacional).

In Spain any person can buy and win the any spanish lottery jackpot, even if you are a tourist visiting Spain you are eligible to buy Spanish Lottery Tickets and win the Jackpot.

If you are not planning to visit Spain and you want to Buy EuroMillions Tickets you can visit Lottosphoto (Spanish company based in Madrid) |Play EuroMillions and Spanish Lottery |, we will buy your EuroMillions Tickets on your behalf and send you a colour photo of your Ticket.

More information about the Spanish Lotteries:

1. La Primitiva (Spanish Lottery)

La Primitiva began in August, 1985 with the 6/49 lottery format that is still in use today. La Primitiva’s biggest jackpots include €101.000.000 in 2015.

How to Play La Primitiva 

To participate, players select 6 numbers which are randomly selected from the drum with a guess range of 1-49. Lottery officials will draw a seventh number, called a bonus ball, from the same lottery drum as the regular guess set.

The bonus number cannot count towards the jackpot prize but creates a second place 5+1 prize. To win the jackpot of the La Primitiva lottery, you must match 6 numbers from 1 to 49. Draws are held every Thursday and Saturday. Six of these numbers for a winning combination and the seventh number (additional number) is used to determine the second division prize.

In addition, La Primitiva lottery has a special prize or "Refund": in each drawing an eighth ball is drawn with a number between 0 and 9. All players who match this number are awarded with the Refund. In November 2012, La Primitiva introduced a new award category: Special category: This new category is to match all six numbers in the combination of La Primitiva, plus "reimbursement" (6 + R). 

2. El Gordo de la Primitiva (Spanish Lottery)

El Gordo de la Primitiva is one of the lotteries on offer and was first launched in 1993. Originally this lottery was only held once a month but in October 1997 the draw was changed to weekly (every sunday). 

How to Play El Gordo de la Primitiva

Tickets consist of two grids, one with numbers from 1 to 54 and the second from 0 to 9. Players have to pick five numbers in the first grid and one in the second (key number). The key number also serves as return number.

To win the jackpot a player needs to match all 5 primary numbers and the extra key number. El Gordo de la Primitiva has a minimum starting jackpot of 5.000.000 Euros and will roll over until it is won.

The jackpot for this Spanish National Lottery has climbed to over 33.000.000 Euros. El Gordo is played once a week on Sunday, drawing are held at 1pm (GMT+1) . 

3. Bonoloto (Spanish Lottery)

The BonoLoto has a €400,000 starting jackpot that builds momentum quickly with four weekly draws. BonoLoto was founded by La Loteria Nacional with the goal of providing a less expensive lottery that would be offered throughout the week.

Bonoloto began operating on February 28, 1988 and saw its biggest jackpot win only 2 years later when one winner collected a €7.000.000 jackpot. In 1991, BonoLoto introduced “reintegro,” or the practice of refunding players whose tickets match the reintegro number randomly assigned to the ticket. 

How to Play Bonoloto  

To play BonoLoto online, single bet, select 6 numbers from a guess range of 1-49. Lottery officials will select a bonus number during the draw, called a complementario number. If players match the bonus number and 5 out of the 6 main number picks, they can win the second place prize. To win the BonoLoto jackpot, players must match the 6 main numbers selected during the draw. 

4. Loteria Nacional (Spanish National Lottery)

Thursday and Saturday - is a Spanish Raffle similar to the Spanish Christman Lottery - Loteria de Navidad, draws consist of 100,000 tickets printed with five-digit codes ranging from 00000-99999, the participants purchase tickets with pre-selected codes.There is a "premio especial" (“special first prize”) is awarded to a specific share in a specific series of the first prize winning ticket.

The selected share will receive an additional €4.9 million in cash prizes for a total win of €5 million.

5. The Spanish Christmas Lottery (Spanish Lottery)

The Spanish Christmas Lottery it has been organized every year since 1812 .As measured by the total prize payout, the Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery worldwide.

In 2015, with 18 million pre-printed €200 tickets to sell, the maximum total amount available for all prizes would be €2.52 billion (70% of ticket sales).[1] The total prize for the first place El Gordo ("the big one") jackpot would be €720 million.Since 2011, the Spanish Christmas Lottery is based on tickets ("billetes") which have 5-digit numbers, from #00000 to #99999.

Since this system only produces 100,000 unique ticket numbers, each ticket number is printed multiple times, in several so-called series ("serie"). The series is also identified on each ticket by a series number. In this way, the lottery organizer is able to sell more than 100,000 tickets each year, numbered from "Series 001 Ticket 00000" through "Series xxx Ticket 99999", where xxx is the total number of series printed in a given year.

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