A lottery player won over four million euros with six numbers in the Saturday draw on April 17, 2021 - without breaking the jackpot.
Munich - The winning numbers were 18, 22, 25, 26, 36 and 48. This number combination was worth exactly 4,099,482.60 euros.
The 31-year-old lottery player was the only one in Germany on Saturday to make it into the so-called second prize class.
Therefore, she took home more than four million euros, as reported by Lotto24 AG.
Little is known about the winner: The 31-year-old from North Rhine-Westphalia says she wants to use the money to buy a holiday home.
The most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia was able to choose eight lottery millionaires this year.
But there is also good news for all those who were not right on this Saturday: The tipster got the super number wrong.
This increases the jackpot to around seven million euros.
Win millions in the lottery: the probability is really that high
In the game 6 out of 49, the probability of winning six correct numbers is 1 in 15,537,573. The chance of correctly typing the 6 correct super number is 1 in 139,838,160. Researchers keep finding that people are not particularly good at intuitively assessing probabilities correctly. The probability of being struck by lightning, for example, is significantly higher than winning the lottery: Experts estimate the chance of 1 in 6 million.
Based on evaluations since 1956, 6 was the number drawn most often, while the lucky fairy drew 13 the least often.
If you want to see a pattern in it: Every number has the same probability of winning.
Because every drawing is independent of the previous one - just like the coin toss, a previous result does not affect the next one.
Lucky hit in the lottery: strange incidents after winning the lottery
Around 7.3 million people in Germany regularly play the lottery.
This is the result of a survey by the IfD Allensbach.
Over 20 million gamble occasionally.
A lot of strange things happen: While some can hardly wait for the lottery to be drawn, a couple from Swabia only noticed their lucky hit of almost five million it was three weeks late.
A lottery player from the USA fared even worse: he won a million and soon found out that he could no longer find his lottery ticket.
The highest single win in the Federal Republic so far was 42.58 million euros.
A lot of money is not necessary to win: A lottery player from the Bavarian Swabia staked 2.40 euros and won almost five million lottery tickets.