lottery - Jackpot cracked - almost 5.8 Million Euro won
A lucky player from the Landkreis Diepholz district has cracked the Jackpot in the Lotto-Classic "6 out of 49" lottery - the only one to do so nationwide. The winner correctly guessed the six winning numbers along with the Supernumber and will now receive 5,792,441.00 Euro, Lotto Niedersachsen announced.
The winner submitted their lottery ticket with four chosen fields at a sales outlet in the Landkreis Diepholz - this is the second million-dollar win of the year in the district.
The chance of hitting the Jackpot in the Lotto is extremely low - it stands at approximately 1:140 Million according to Lotto Niedersachsen. So far in the current year, there have been 98 winnings of at least 100,000 Euro in a lottery in this federal state - five of which were million-dollar wins.
The lucky winner's hometown is located within the Diepholz District of Lower Saxony, near Hannover. The winning numbers for the Jackpot were drawn in the popular Lotto-Classic "6 out of 49" lottery, which is managed by Lotto Niedersachsen. The Jackpot win in the Diepholz District marks the second million-dollar victory this year in Lower Saxony's Gambling scene.