Bonoloto today: result of Monday, August 31, complementary and refund

Based on the sources consulted, it can be clearly stated that currently Bonoloto is held every day of the week, from Monday to Sunday, as a daily draw managed by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE). However, those same sources do not specify the exact date when the daily frequency was adopted, nor do they explicitly record the administrative or commercial decision that justified the calendar change.

Recent reference texts, such as specialized press reports and coverage by general media, agree in describing the current situation: SELAE “holds the daily Bonoloto draw daily, from Monday to Sunday”, with a draw each night and the subsequent publication of the winning combination, the complementary number, and the refund number. This formulation appears, for example, in the piece from the newspaper El País dedicated to the draw of March 24, 2025, and is repeated in multiple Demócrata news articles about the 2026 draws.

Those same reports point out that Bonoloto is “one of the most frequent games of SELAE” and emphasize its daily nature as a defining feature compared to other modalities such as La Primitiva, Euromillions, or El Gordo de la Primitiva, which maintain a weekly or biweekly cadence. However, they focus on the current operation (how to play, what jackpot is at stake, what time the draw is held) and do not reconstruct the historical evolution of the frequency since its launch.

For that reason, with the documentation found it is not possible to rigorously answer two specific elements of your question:

• “When” it started being held with daily draws: the sources consulted do not include either the SELAE agreement, a ministerial order, or an official communication that sets a before and after in the Bonoloto calendar.
• “Why” the daily frequency was adopted: no official explanations or interviews motivating the change appear in the recovered material (for example, referring to commercial strategy, public demand, or the need to increase revenue).

What can be done, without leaving the available information, is to frame the situation within the general pattern of the public gaming offer:

• SELAE maintains a diversified catalog of products: very massive and low-frequency draws (such as the Christmas Draw or the Niño Draw), weekly draws with accumulated jackpots, and alongside them, high-frequency games that are repeated several times a week or even daily, as is now the case with Bonoloto.
• The press notes that Bonoloto is characterized by low-price bets (0.50 euros per combination, with a minimum of 1 euro per ticket) and by the possibility of participating any day, which fits a strategy of offering an easy and repeated access game, different from the large exceptional draws.
• News systematically present Bonoloto as a draw that “is held every day of the week” and whose daily operation is already part of SELAE’s “usual programming”; that is, the daily frequency has been consolidated as a stable part of the public lottery system.

From this perspective, it is reasonable to interpret that the conversion of Bonoloto into a daily draw responds to the general logic of the public gaming sector: increase the regular offer, better distribute revenue throughout the week, and have a recurring product with moderate jackpots that complements the large jackpot and low-frequency draws. But, I insist, this interpretation is general in nature; the documentation found does not include a specific statement of reasons confirming it for this particular case.

In summary, the analyzed sources allow us to affirm that Bonoloto is today a daily draw managed by the State, held from Monday to Sunday and integrated as one of the highest frequency games in the public lottery system. However, they do not provide precise historical data to fix the exact moment when the daily celebration began nor do they include a detailed official justification for that change. Any more specific date or reason given without that documentary support would, at this point, be unverified speculation.

Bonoloto is a state-wide lottery draw. The body that directly manages it is the Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE), a public company attached to the Ministry of Finance. The general regulation of gaming and supervision of the public operator fall within the framework of the Law 13/2011, regulating gaming, whose application corresponds to the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), dependent on the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs, and 2030 Agenda.

According to various news and official documents, Bonoloto is expressly described as one of the “games of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado”, managed by SELAE. Daily result articles state that it is a game “of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado” and that the definitive verification of tickets must always be done at SELAE or authorized administrations, and that the official prize collection regulations are those of SELAE (news about Bonoloto results; several Demócrata pieces about Bonoloto).

On the other hand, a specific Demócrata piece about the conflict between lottery sellers and SELAE explains that the Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado “is the public company attached to the Ministry of Finance responsible for managing, exploiting, and marketing state-owned lotteries in Spain, including La Primitiva, Bonoloto, Euromillions, La Quiniela, and the National Lottery” (article about SELAE and lottery sellers). From this, it is deduced that Bonoloto is part of the state lottery monopoly exercised by SELAE.

Regarding its specific competences over Bonoloto, journalistic and parliamentary texts allow identifying several functions:

• Organize the draw: SELAE sets the calendar (Bonoloto is held every day), the game mechanics (six numbers, complementary and refund), and the prize category structure. Various result reports state that SELAE “organizes the draw” and determines the schedule of the extractions.
• Publish official results: after each draw, SELAE publishes the winning combination, the complementary number, the refund, and the scrutiny, including amount collected and prize distribution, which are the data that media reproduce as secondary information.
• Establish and apply prize distribution rules: news cite that the amount of each category depends on the collection and the number of winners and that SELAE sets and applies these rules according to internal gaming regulations.
• Manage prize payments and collection procedures: payment of smaller prizes is made at the official sales points network, while larger prizes are processed through collaborating financial entities following SELAE procedures. The Official State Gazette (BOE) even includes an audit report from the Court of Auditors on the “control system applied in prize management by the Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado” (resolution of the General Courts), confirming that prize payment management and control fall within its competence.
• Internal control, fraud prevention, and money laundering: the same parliamentary resolution urges SELAE to improve its internal rules on participation requirements, prize documentation controls, and IT systems to detect fraud or money laundering risks, showing that these functions are part of its direct responsibility.

Besides SELAE, there is a general regulatory framework for gaming that also affects state lotteries, including Bonoloto. Various official texts recall that Law 13/2011 reserves state lotteries to operators designated by the law itself (SELAE and ONCE, as detailed for the latter in several BOE resolutions about its lottery products). On that basis, the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) acts, which:

• Is the regulatory authority for gaming in Spain for licensed operators.
• Develops Law 13/2011 regarding safe gaming and consumer protection through royal decrees and technical standards, applicable to online gaming operators and, “where appropriate, to regulated lottery operators” (as noted in a Demócrata analysis about a new problematic gaming detection algorithm).
• Supervises and sanctions operators, including SELAE: other Demócrata information about CeJuego explains that the DGOJ publishes sanctions to sector operators and explicitly mentions a fine to SELAE, confirming its sanctioning capacity also over the public operator (article about fines and DGOJ).

In summary, Bonoloto is situated on a dual institutional level:

• In direct management, game design, draw organization, marketing, sales network, and prize payment, the competent body is SELAE, a public company of the Ministry of Finance.
• In general regulation, supervision, and sanctioning regime of gaming, the reference is the DGOJ, which applies Law 13/2011 and other responsible gaming and consumer protection regulations also over the public lottery operator.

Thus, Bonoloto is not an isolated private promotion but a draw integrated into the state lottery system, operated by SELAE under a specific legal framework and subject to regulatory control by the General State Administration.

Bonoloto is a modality of the Primitiva Lottery or Number Lottery, a state-owned game whose exploitation is reserved to the State. Lottery administrations are not “gaming operators” in the strict sense, but establishments integrated into the commercial network of the Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) that, with prior authorization, can sell tickets and pay Bonoloto prizes and other state lottery products.

1. Basic applicable legal framework

• Royal Decree 1360/1985, of August 1, authorizing the exploitation of the Primitiva Lottery or Number Lottery (BOE-A-1985-16532). It establishes the Primitiva Lottery as a national lottery and assigns its direction, organization, and exploitation to the then National Organism of State Lotteries and Bets (today SELAE). It foresees that this organism sets “the form, terms, and conditions under which the National Lottery Administrations and sports betting receiving establishments may sell tickets and pay prizes.”
• Royal Decree 208/2004, of February 6 (BOE-A-2004-2305), which adds article 1 bis to Royal Decree 1360/1985. It authorizes Loterías y Apuestas del Estado to establish modalities of the Primitiva Lottery (including Bonoloto), set game characteristics, bet price, prize categories, and draw days.
• Law 13/2011, of May 27, regulating gaming (BOE-A-2011-9280). It is the sectorial reference law for state-wide gaming. Relevant here:
  • It exclusively reserves the state lottery gaming activity to SELAE and ONCE.
  • It recognizes that lotteries managed by SELAE and ONCE are marketed “in tickets, slips, or any other form of participation (…) directly or through any establishment of their external commercial network.”
  • It provides that the opening of establishments accessible to the public intended to market these reserved games does not require authorization from Autonomous Communities as long as they are games subject to the reservation regime.
• Royal Decree 1614/2011, of November 14 (BOE-A-2011-17836), which develops Law 13/2011 regarding licenses, authorizations, and registers, mainly for gaming operators other than the reserved ones. It complements the framework, but SELAE and ONCE have a specific regime in reserved lotteries.

2. Who can sell Bonoloto?

In view of these rules, Bonoloto ticket sales can only be made:

• By SELAE itself through its means (including electronic channels).
• Through establishments integrated into its external commercial network: lottery administrations, mixed receivers, or other authorized points.

That is, an administration cannot “set up on its own”: it must be formally authorized and contracted by SELAE as an official sales point.

3. Essential legal requirements for an administration

Although the fine details of scales, calls, and sales point contracts are set in SELAE’s internal regulations and resolutions, the state framework allows extracting the following general requirements and obligations:

• a) Integration into SELAE’s commercial network
  The administration must obtain an authorization or sales point contract granted by SELAE, under Royal Decree 1360/1985 and its statute and internal resolutions. Without that legal link with SELAE, it is not possible to market Bonoloto or other Primitiva Lottery products.
• b) Respect for the activity reservation regime
  Law 13/2011 reserves state lotteries to SELAE. The administration acts as an authorized intermediary, not as an independent gaming operator, so:
  • It cannot create or exploit its own games presented as “state” lottery.
  • It must adhere to the conditions set by SELAE (product, price, draw days, validation procedures, etc.).
• c) Physical establishment and external commercial network
  Law 13/2011 allows games to be marketed “directly or through any establishment of its external commercial network,” and admits various forms of participation (material or electronic support). From this it follows that:
  • The administration must have a premises accessible to the public that SELAE incorporates into its commercial network.
  • That premises is subject to the technical and operational conditions established by SELAE (terminals, connection to the central system, validation and prize payment procedures, ticket custody, etc.).
• d) Obligations towards participants
  Within the framework of Law 13/2011 and Loterías y Apuestas del Estado resolutions, the administration must:
  • Respect the game rules of the Primitiva Lottery and its modalities (including Bonoloto) dictated by SELAE in the corresponding resolutions.
  • Act with transparency in sales and prize payments, adhering to official instructions.
  • Collaborate in measures to protect minors and participants and in control procedures established by SELAE and the state gaming authority.
• e) Fiscal obligations related to prizes
  The special tax on prizes of certain lotteries and bets is regulated, among others, in the orders:
  • Order HAP/70/2013, of January 30 (models 230 and 136) (BOE-A-2013-952).
  • Order HAP/2368/2013, of December 13 (model 270) (BOE-A-2013-13228).
  SELAE generally assumes the role of obligated subject to withhold on taxable prizes and to declare through these models, but the administration must strictly follow SELAE’s instructions regarding:
  • Identification of the prize winner when applicable.
  • Communication and processing of taxable prizes.

In summary, for an administration to legally sell Bonoloto tickets, it is not enough to have a premises open to the public: it must be formally integrated into SELAE’s commercial network through the corresponding authorization and contract, and comply with the conditions and obligations derived from state gaming regulations and Loterías y Apuestas del Estado resolutions regulating the Primitiva Lottery and its modalities.