How to Play BonoLoto from Brazil: A Brazilian Player's Guide

Yes. BonoLoto is run by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE), the Spanish state lottery, which pays the holder of a winning ticket and sets no nationality or residency condition on winning or claiming.

Brazil has no lotérica that sells the game, so Brazilian players use a lottery courier. The courier buys the line in Spain on your instruction, scans the ticket into your account and keeps the original safe, and the entry you hold is the same as one bought over the counter in Madrid. Everything that differs for a player in Brazil sits around the ticket: the law, the clock, the exchange rate and the tax return.

Brazilian law does not prohibit a resident from entering a foreign draw, but the main lottery statute is written about tickets, not players. Decreto-Lei nº 6.259/1944 makes it an offence to bring foreign lottery tickets into the country (Art. 46) and to hold them in order to place or circulate them (Art. 47). A courier does neither: the paper ticket stays in Spain, and what reaches you is a scan.

That is our reading of the text, not a court ruling, and we have found no Brazilian guidance that settles whether entering through an agent is covered. A Brazilian lawyer is the person to ask if you want certainty. Consumer-protection bodies such as PROCON are unlikely to reach an operator based abroad, so the due diligence is yours: a verifiable trading history, fees shown before you pay, legible scans of every ticket, and a stated process for paying large prizes.

BonoLoto uses the same 6-from-49 grid as La Primitiva but sells it for less and draws it more often.

• **Price.** One bet is €0.50; the smallest ticket is €1, which means two bets for one draw or one bet for two draws.
• **Frequency.** A draw every night of the week at 21:30 Spanish time.
• **Complementario.** An extra ball taken from the 43 numbers left. It lifts a five-number match into the second prize tier and has no effect on the jackpot.
• **Reintegro.** A digit from 0 to 9 printed on the ticket when you buy it. Match it and the stake comes back.
• **Jackpot.** It starts at €400,000 and rolls over. The record is €10,614,853.61, won on 17 January 2024.

So BonoLoto is a volume-and-price game. The jackpots are small beside Mega-Sena's headline figures, and that is the point of it.

Brasília time does not change, since Brazil has no daylight saving, so only Spain's clocks move the result. The draw is at 21:30 in Madrid:

• While Spain is on winter time (UTC+1), from the last Sunday of October to the last Sunday of March, that is **17:30 in Brasília**. The current period runs to 27 March 2027.
• While Spain is on summer time (UTC+2), from the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday of October, that is **16:30 in Brasília**.

Either way it is a late-afternoon draw, seven days a week, so the result is usually in before you finish work. Because entry closes before the draw, a ticket bought late in the evening goes into the next night's draw. Read the cut-off at checkout instead of assuming it matches the draw time.

• Pick a licensed courier that accepts players from Brazil and carries BonoLoto. Not every operator offers every Spanish game.
• Register and verify your identity. In Brazil that normally means your CPF or passport plus proof of address.
• Choose six numbers from 1 to 49, or take a quick pick. The Reintegro is assigned to your ticket and the Complementario is drawn by chance.
• Pay by card or one of the methods listed for Brazil, and check which currency your card is charged in before confirming.
• Make sure the scan of your ticket appears in your account before entry closes. It is your proof of entry.
• After the draw the operator checks your line and credits any prize.

The face price is €0.50 a bet. At the European Central Bank reference rate for 6 November 2026, published by Frankfurter, €1 = R$6.1449. That puts one bet at about R$3.07, the €1 minimum ticket at about R$6.14 and a week of seven single-bet draws (€3.50) at about R$21.51, all before the courier's fee.

Two Brazil-specific costs sit outside the operator's price list. Your card issuer converts the charge into reais at its own rate, and international card purchases can attract Brazil's IOF financial-transactions tax. Ask your bank what applies to a foreign purchase before you budget, because it changes. The euro rate also bites twice on a win, once going in and once on the way back to reais.

Start with Spain, where the prize is paid. Its special levy on lottery prizes exempts the first €40,000 and withholds 20% on the part above it, applied by SELAE at payment. Almost every BonoLoto prize, the fixed €4 tier, the Reintegro refund and everything up to the middle categories, sits far under that line and arrives whole. Only a large jackpot is touched, and only on the excess: a €400,000 win is taxed on €360,000, so €72,000 is withheld.

Then Brazil. Residents are taxed on income from abroad, and Agência Brasil's May 2025 guidance on declaring lottery prizes says a prize received from abroad is reported as foreign-source income and run through the carnê-leão, calculated and paid monthly, at the progressive rate that tops out at 27.5%. That differs from a domestic prize, where tax is taken before payment.

Whether the 20% Spain withholds can be credited against the Brazilian bill depends on the tax treaty and your own position. We have not verified that, so put it to a contador. This is not tax advice, and the rules change.

Small prizes are credited to your courier account and withdrawn to a Brazilian bank account, converted from euros into reais.

A top-tier prize is paid by SELAE in Spain. The courier transfers the ticket into your name and handles the claim on your instruction, which can mean identity documents, Spanish tax paperwork and, for the largest sums, collecting in person. Ask any operator how it handles that before you play, since the answer varies more than players expect.

Two practical points. A large inbound transfer is a foreign-exchange operation, so route it through a bank or a licensed corretora rather than in pieces. And keep the ticket scan and the operator's payment confirmation, because your contador will want them to show the source and amount for the carnê-leão.

Six matching numbers win the jackpot at 1 in 13,983,816. Below it, per ticket line:

• 5 plus the Complementario: 1 in 2,330,636
• 5 numbers: 1 in 55,491
• 4 numbers: 1 in 1,032
• 3 numbers: about 1 in 57, for a fixed €4
• Reintegro alone: 1 in 10, which refunds the €0.50

Our BonoLoto odds and prizes guide sets out the full table.

Mega-Sena's jackpot is 1 in 50,063,860, so BonoLoto's is about 3.6 times easier to hit, with a much smaller ceiling. What Mega-Sena offers is convenience: any lotérica, no account, no exchange rate and no foreign-income filing. No method of choosing numbers shifts either set of odds.

SELAE sells three number games side by side, and a courier can reach all of them from Brazil.

**BonoLoto** is the cheap daily game: €0.50 a bet, 6 from 49, no separate top category.

**La Primitiva** is the flagship: €1 a line, three draws a week and a jackpot that starts at €2 million. Our La Primitiva guide for Brazil covers it.

**El Gordo de la Primitiva** is the Sunday game on a different matrix. Our El Gordo guide for Brazil covers it, and it should not be confused with the Christmas raffle that shares part of its name.

The next draw is on our next BonoLoto draw page and recent numbers on the results page.

A genuine operator never charges a fee to release a prize, you cannot win a draw you did not enter, and a licence should be checked on the regulator's own register, not taken from a badge. Nunca pague taxas antecipadas: a message saying you won a lottery you never entered is fraud.

We would rather you played less than played badly, and a draw every night is the easiest kind to leave running unattended. If it stops feeling like entertainment, Jogadores Anônimos can help, and our responsible-play page lists limits worth setting.