Advertised jackpot for the draw on Saturday, 18.07.2026
Last payout: 50.000.000 € on Saturday, 11.07.2026. Nobody hit it, the pot sits at its 50-million cap.
The draw on 15.07.2026 (Wednesday) has taken place; the prize quotas are still being calculated. We're showing the last known standing.
Next draw
Saturday,
18.07.2026
19:25
Closing time
18.07.2026 18:59
18:59
Game volume 11.07.2026 (Saturday)
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This is the total amount that all players together put into ticket lines for this one draw. A single line costs 1.20 €, so the game volume corresponds to a few dozen million tips played. The higher the jackpot, the more people join in. The arrow next to it compares with the same weekday draw of the previous week, Saturday with Saturday and Wednesday with Wednesday.
52.303.990 €
↓ 1,0 %
compared to the draw on Saturday the week before
Chance someone wins this draw
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At a jackpot of 30 million euros, Germany typically sees 70 to 90 million ticket lines played. The chance of any one line hitting 6 correct plus the super number is 1 in 140 million. From those two numbers, you can roughly estimate the probability that someone will hit class 1 in this draw. The owl calculates, she promises nothing. When the chance sits at 60 percent, the jackpot rolls over in 4 out of 10 draws.
The jackpot can grow to a maximum of 50 million euros. If it is not cracked at that amount, it stays at 50 million until someone hits six correct numbers plus the super number. There has been no forced payout into a lower prize class since 1 November 2023.
Maximum jackpot reached, capped at 50 million
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.
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.
An example: the jackpot stands at 12 million, nobody has 6 correct plus the super number, and the next draw pulls in another 30 million in stakes. Of that, around 1.9 million go into class 1. The new pool holds roughly 12 + 1.9 = nearly 14 million. What you then see as a “14 million jackpot” on posters and in TV spots is no marketing wishful number, it's exactly this calculation.
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.