Today's drawings, Wednesday, October 28: schedules and prizes of Bonoloto and ONCE

In both games, claiming requires verifying that the ticket is valid and winning, presenting the corresponding receipt, and passing the applicable controls before payment. However, the payment channels and expiration periods are different: Bonoloto sets three months and ONCE's Daily Coupon, thirty calendar days.

1. Bonoloto: validation and payment

The participation and payment rules are stated in the Resolution of October 16, 2000, with its amendments. The procedure includes these steps:

• Prove the bet. Bets are transmitted to the central system and the terminal issues a receipt with the forecasts, draws, amount, and control numbers. That receipt, not the ticket used to mark the numbers, constitutes the proof of participation. The player must check their data upon receipt.
• Verify the prize. The bet must be correctly registered. Mere possession of a receipt does not allow obtaining a prize if the forecasts were not registered according to the rules.
• Present the receipt. To claim, its delivery is required, and Lotteries may request the presenter's identification. Exceptionally, payment without a receipt may be authorized when sufficient data is provided to unequivocally identify the person who submitted the bet for validation.
• Process the payment. The rules contemplate commercial delegations, points of sale, and authorized banking entities, according to conditions set by Lotteries. The Resolution of November 27, 2001 allows verifying smaller prizes via terminal and channels larger ones through financial entities managing their central accounts.

Payment is scheduled from the first business day following the last included draw in the bet. Prizes expire after three months, counted from the day after the last draw in which the receipt participates. A court order regarding its ownership may suspend payment.

2. Daily Coupon: controls and payment method

The Regulation of the "ONCE Coupon" applies, published by the Resolution of April 4, 2023, especially articles 36 to 40:

• Presentation and validation. The physical coupon is payable to the bearer upon presentation and delivery; it cannot be replaced by another document. In terminal and Internet tickets, number, series, date, and control code must match the central system. ONCE may delay payment to verify them, issuing a receipt if it collects the ticket.
• Channels and amounts. ONCE centers and collaborating entities manage the collection. Points of sale can pay up to 500 euros, inclusive. Up to that amount, cash is allowed; above it, payment is made by bank transfer.
• Identification. From 2,000 euros, including apparently related operations, full identification and verification of legal age and gaming prohibitions are required. Prizes are never paid to minors under eighteen years old.
• Internet purchase. The prize corresponds exclusively to the registered client and is credited to their virtual account. To withdraw it, they must have verified their identity documentarily.

Presentation to claim expires after thirty calendar days from the day after the draw; if the last day is Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, it is extended to the next business day.

3. Taxation and fraud prevention

Payment is subject to applicable tax withholdings. Additionally, Royal Decree 304/2014 requires identity controls and anti-money laundering prevention, with special attention to repetitive prize claims. These controls should not be confused with the limits of each payment channel.

ONCE can organize, operate, and market certain state-wide lotteries to finance its social purposes. It is not the regulatory authority of gambling nor does it have a general license to offer any gambling game: it acts as an authorized operator, within a legal reservation and under public control.

1. Nature and legal basis

ONCE is a public law corporation of social character, with its own legal personality and capacity for self-organization. Article 1 of Royal Decree 358/1991 recognizes that it has public gaming authorizations to finance its social purposes, linked to the autonomy and inclusion of blind people or those with severe visual impairment.

Article 4 and the first and second additional provisions of Law 13/2011 frame its activity within the state lottery reservation, shared with the State Society of Lotteries and Betting (SELAE). Therefore, there is no general monopoly of ONCE. The law also contemplates exceptional authorizations for occasional charitable lotteries of non-profit entities.

2. What it can organize and manage

Within the authorized modalities, its powers include:

• Operating the coupon and organizing its draws, including special ones, according to authorized conditions.
• Managing active and instant lotteries, the latter also called pre-drawn and commercially known as "scratch cards."
• Making organizational, economic, and commercial decisions, through its General Council, always within the limits of the authorization.
• Distributing and marketing its products directly or through its external commercial network, using physical, computer, telematic, telephone, or interactive media.
• Entering into agreements on common lottery products with other authorized operators, subject to verification by the Protectorate Council and under the conditions provided in its regulations.

Its framework includes the General Government-ONCE Agreement for 2022-2031, approved on November 2, 2021, cited in the Resolution of October 2025.

3. Who authorizes and who controls

Article 7 of Royal Decree 358/1991 assigns the Council of Ministers the granting of authorizations. These must specify their scope and duration and establish limits that ONCE cannot exceed without prior and express authorization.

In the coupon, limits include at least annual issues and sales, prize percentages, maximum prices, update criteria, and special draws. Other modalities have their own conditions and limits.

The Protectorate Council exercises specific public control, without prejudice to the Council of Ministers' powers. ONCE must notify it in advance of the conditions and modifications of its products to verify their regulatory compliance and publish them in the BOE as consumer guarantees. This procedure is also described in the Resolution of November 2025.

4. Limits and particularities

Internet sales are a marketing channel for its authorized lotteries, not an automatic license for casino, poker, or sports betting. It also cannot transfer to third parties the titles that allow it to carry out its activity.

Its reserved regime does not require the ordinary licenses of Title III of Law 13/2011. Additionally, opening establishments to market the games included in the first additional provision does not require autonomous gaming authorization. This exception does not grant ONCE powers over other autonomous games.

Finally, it must comply with applicable obligations of participant protection, fraud prevention, and tax cooperation. In summary, it manages its lotteries; it does not regulate the sector.

The last complete calendar year is 2025, from January 1 to December 31. The corresponding count according to the draw schedule is 365 Bonoloto draws and 209 ONCE Daily Coupon draws: in total, 574 draws. It is worth noting that this figure is obtained from the frequency of draws and the calendar, not from an individual check of all draw records.

Bonoloto: 365 draws

Bonoloto is held every day of the week, Monday through Sunday. Therefore, its frequency is not limited to working days nor does it automatically exclude weekends. This periodicity appears, for example, in the information about the March 2025 draw published by El País.

Since 2025 was not a leap year, it had 365 days. Applying a daily draw, the calculation is straightforward:

• 365 days × 1 daily draw = 365 draws.

To verify the dates and winning combinations, the Bonoloto 2025 history and its annual list in PDF are available. No extraordinary suspension requiring discounting a day from the annual calendar is recorded in the consulted sources.

ONCE Daily Coupon: 209 draw dates

The ONCE Daily Coupon is held Monday through Thursday. Its name does not mean it has a draw every day of the week: for this question, it must be distinguished from Cuponazo, Weekend Coupon, and the organization's special draws.

In 2025 there were 52 full weeks and one additional day. That additional day was Wednesday, so the distribution of days on which the Daily Coupon is held was as follows:

• Monday: 52.
• Tuesday: 52.
• Wednesday: 53.
• Thursday: 52.

The sum is 52 + 52 + 53 + 52 = 209. Simply multiplying four weekly draws by 52 weeks would give 208, but would exclude the additional Wednesday of the year.

Why it is not appropriate to discount Maundy Thursday

There is no support in the official text consulted to subtract April 17, 2025, due to an alleged substitution of the Daily Coupon by a Holy Week special. The second quarter calendar, published in the BOE, sets a 10 million euro issue per Daily Coupon draw and 520 million for the quarter: equivalent to 52 draws, precisely Mondays to Thursdays of April, May, and June.

The third quarter calendar establishes 530 million euros for that product, with the same unit issue: equivalent to 53 draws. Both data are consistent with the count by dates and not with indiscriminately discounting holidays.

In short, to compare both games during 2025, the reference is 365 versus 209, with a difference of 156 draws. ONCE's special draws should not be added to the Daily Coupon because they are different products; nor should they be subtracted from it without proof that they effectively replaced an ordinary draw.