Friday, July 27, 2012

Lotteries in Germany

In Germany, the government has a monopoly on the lottery system, where it offers a "pick 6 out of 49" system. The chances of winning the jackpot are 1:139,000,000. A ticket would need 6 matching numbers out of 49 and an additional "super number" from 0 to 9.
Winning numbers are drawn twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Germany offers some additional games like super 6, game 77 and the Glücksspirale. The highest jackpot ever won was December 5th 2007 where 3 people had to share 45,382,458 euros. This is just about 2 million euros less than the highest jackpot possible. The lowest jackpot ever won was in 1984 where a German with the numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 25 received only DM 16,907 (8,644.0 euros).

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