Current Jackpot

Jackpot history of the last 12 draws

The line rises with every draw in which nobody hits 6 correct plus the super number. It drops when the jackpot is cracked.

Last class 1 win

On Saturday, 17.10.2026, 2 players shared the jackpot and each received 1.492.712 €. After that, the pot started over at around one million.

How does the jackpot actually work?

Every draw, a fixed share of stakes goes into the prize pool; for Lotto 6aus49, that's about half. The other half goes to lottery tax (16.7 percent of the stake), state concession fees, processing and distribution costs. With a game volume of 30 million euros, roughly 15 million end up in the nine prize classes.

Class 1 (6 correct plus super number) receives about 12.8 percent of that. If nobody hits it, and that's the norm because the chance per line is 1 in 140 million, the share rolls untouched into the next draw. That's how the jackpot grows week after week.

Concretely from the last draw on Wednesday, 28.10.2026: the pot stood at 6,10 million €. Stakes added in that draw totalled 21,84 million €, of which around 1,40 million € went into class 1. Nobody hit 6 correct plus the super number, so on paper the pot grew to roughly 7,50 million €. The advertised jackpot for Saturday, 31.10.2026 reads 9 million €: model and reality are 16,7 percent apart.

Since November 2023 there's a cap: at 50 million euros the climb ends. If the jackpot stays unsolved in that draw, nothing further happens: it stays at 50 million until someone hits six correct numbers plus the super number. Excess stakes that, under the old rule, would have inflated the jackpot further flow into a jackpot overflow, which tops up the next round once the maximum jackpot has been cracked.

What applied before November 2023 and why it changed is explained in the guide Forced payout in German Lotto.