Lotto 6aus49
What is the Lotto6aus49?
Lotto6aus49 is Germany’s premier lottery game.
How did it originate?
Lotto6aus49 was first played on the 9th October, 1955. In 1974, the game eventually joined the Deutscher Lotto-und Totoblock (DLTB), which represent 16 individual lotteries from various regions in a partnership known as Lotteriegesellschaften.
How big is it today?
Its straight-forward and simple game play, plus the fact that this it has nine prize tiers and impressive jackpot prizes, not to mention an annual pay-out of over €5 billion in prizes, has made the Lotto6aus49 Germany’s biggest and most popular lotto game to play.
Who can play Lotto6aus49?
Just because you don’t live in Germany, doesn’t mean that you cannot play this incredible lottery. All you have to do is use a online lottery concierge service, to purchase Lotto6aus49 tickets online.
Lotto6aus49 lottery fans simply place their entries and make a payment. The tickets for the Lotto6aus49 are purchased by agents in Frankfurt, Germany. Immediately after the draw, everyone who purchased a ticket into the draw, will receive an automated Lotto6aus49 results mailer, reflecting the winning numbers for the draw and any matches you may have.
For those living in Germany, you can buy tickets in-person from an authorised retailer or for ease of use and convenience, through an online lottery concierge service. The upside of using ticketing service is that you will never lose your Lotto6aus49 ticket and in the event of a substantial win, an agent will contact you via email and telephonically, informing you of your win.
When can I play Lotto6aus49?
Draws Lotto6aus49 were originally held once a week on Saturdays. This changed in 1982, with a Wednesday draw included into the schedule.
The Wednesday draw takes place at 18h25 CET, and the Saturday draw at 19h25 CET. Online Lotto6aus49 lottery players may need to complete their purchase earlier to avoid the cut-off time and missing out on that evening’s draw.
The actual location of the draw also got changed from Frankfurt to Saarbrücken, Germany.
If you would like to view the Lotto6aus49 draw live, visit https://www.lotto.de/de/ergebnisse/lotto-6aus49/live-ziehung.html to catch a livestream of the draw, as well as previously aired draws.
Lotto6aus49 Prize Structure
The fact that Lotto6aus49 has nine different prize tiers, makes this an absolute gem of a lotto game to play! Naturally, the aim of the game is to win the top prize. To do so, you need to match all six main numbers and the Superzahl (bonus ball).
The prize tiers work like this:
Prize Tiers Numbers Matched % of Prize of Pool
1st tier Match 6 and the Super Number 12.80%
2nd tier Match 6 10%
3rd tier Match 5 plus Super 5%
4th tier Match 5 15%
5th tier Match 4 plus Super 5%
6th tier Match 4 10%
7th tier Match 3 plus Super 10%
8th tier Match 3 10%
9th tier Match 2 plus Super fixed amount
The highest prize you can win without the Super Number is the match-6 in the second prize tier.
The matrix of the game started off as a 7/38 but this changed in June 1986 to a 6/40 lotto game. Additional rule changes were made in May 2013, which added the Superzahl and improved the odds of winning a prize – going from an overall 1 in 54 to 1 in 31.
The Biggest Wins
The biggest Lotto6aus49 jackpot to date happened on the 5th December 2007, after the jackpot rolled over 13 times. Three ticket holders won €45,382,458.
How to play Lotto6aus49
To the play Lotto6aus49, a player needs to select six numbers from 1 to 49 and a bonus number, known as a Superzahl (Super Number), from 0 to 9. This number will be chosen during the draw from a separate machine.
Lotto6aus49 could make you one of many overnight millionaires or at least a big winner, but like every lotto game out there, you will only find this out if you give yourself that chance to win. The more you play Lotto6aus49 the more you will increases your odds of winning. Naturally this could take many years of playing before a big win.