Advertised jackpot for the draw on Wednesday, 09.09.2026
Last payout: 39.035.468 € on Wednesday, 02.09.2026. Nobody hit it, the pot keeps growing.
The draw on 05.09.2026 (Saturday) has taken place; the prize quotas are still being calculated. We're showing the last known standing.
Next draw
Wednesday,
09.09.2026
18:25
Closing time
09.09.2026 17:59
17:59
Game volume 02.09.2026 (Wednesday)
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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.
29.372.842 €
↑ 8,0 %
compared to the draw on Wednesday 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.
4 more draws until 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.
Concretely from the last draw on Wednesday, 02.09.2026: the pot stood at 39,04 million €. Stakes added in that draw totalled 29,37 million €, of which around 1,88 million € went into class 1. Nobody hit 6 correct plus the super number, so on paper the pot grew to roughly 40,92 million €. The advertised jackpot for Wednesday, 09.09.2026 reads 42 million €: model and reality are 2,6 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.