Overview

• A Lotto 6aus49 ticket purchased anonymously in Offenbach matched six numbers on May 31, securing a €2.244 million prize despite missing the Superzahl.
• The Eurojackpot drawing on June 3 produced winning numbers 6, 8, 19, 26, 30 and Euro numbers 1 and 12 but yielded no jackpot winner, keeping the pot at its €10 million minimum.
• Under rules introduced in March 2022, the chance of winning the Eurojackpot’s first prize is roughly 1 in 140 million with a 5-from-50 and 2-from-12 number format.
• Police issued fraud alerts after an 85-year-old woman in Gelsenkirchen lost thousands to a scammer falsely claiming she had won the Eurojackpot and demanding upfront fees.
• A €285.70 Eurojackpot prize for a North Rhine-Westphalia player was temporarily held up by account-verification issues before customer service restored his access.