If no one picks the correct numbers for the top prize in LOTTO 6aus49, a jackpot is created. This means that the money that would normally have been paid out as the top prize is added to the jackpot in the next draw. If no one hits the top prize over multiple draws, the jackpot continues to grow until it reaches the cap of 50 million euros (current jackpot – see banner above).
Did the current jackpot make you curious and you clicked our banner? Want to try your luck? Then choose a provider authorized on the White List (you will only find such providers across our entire site). If you submit a ticket with one of the listed providers, e.g. on the official site LOTTO.de (a joint offering of all 16 state lottery companies united in the German Lotto and Totoblock), your stakes will be forwarded to the state lottery company of your federal state (as required by law). As the table below shows, depending on your state of residence, it may be worth playing your tickets online via LOTTO.de or Lottobay.de. Even faster and easier with our free MELM lottery software (Windows only), which enables error-free ticket submission to both Lotto.de and Lottobay.de.
Ticket price, 12 panels (per draw 12 × €1.20 = €14.40
plus variable processing fee; of course, fewer panels are possible)
“*” – All information without guarantee of completeness or accuracy, as of 15.03.2026,
“**” – selected private, state-licensed lottery brokers (extract),
“-” – not offered, or website not reachable, prices not visible or offering discontinued.
Participation from age 18. Gambling can be addictive. Odds 1:139,838,160.
Info at www.check-dein-spiel.de
As can be seen from this table, fees vary significantly between different lottery outlets. Looking at processing fees
for different play durations alone shows, for example, that Lotto Hamburg consistently
charges uniform and quite high fees. The private, state-licensed lottery broker Lottobay.de is relatively inexpensive
(e.g., for players residing in Lower Saxony) with a balanced fee structure. The state lottery companies Lotto Baden-Württemberg and Lotto Hesse keep their fees the lowest, with a uniform fee of only €0.20 per ticket, making them our test winners.
Naturally, the question arises whether one should generally submit tickets only via
a private, state-licensed provider. Two scenarios must be distinguished:
one more theoretical, the second practically relevant. Theoretically, any private company
could become insolvent and thus fail to forward your stakes to the state lottery companies (LLG). In such a case, you might wait a very long time for any potential prize (outcome uncertain).
The second case concerns non-cash prizes that have occasionally been offered by the official lottery
(e.g., due to unclaimed winnings or similar). With private providers, you should explicitly check whether you are not automatically
waiving such prizes. Taking this into account, we would confidently recommend that a player from Baden-Württemberg or Hesse
play directly with their own state lottery company (of course also via the MELM program – both LOTTO.de and Lottobay.de always forward your stakes to the state lottery company of your residence).
We will not analyze the comparison in more detail here. The numbers speak for themselves.
Online Lotto 6 out of 49 is being chosen by more and more players in Germany as the more convenient and interesting way to pick their numbers. Due to the 2012 decision to de-monopolize the gambling market, this way of playing is absolutely legal and in many cases even cheaper than at a traditional kiosk (mainly due to variable processing fees, which have little to do with the actual lottery stake).
With the table above, we examined the fee systems of the state-licensed internet lottery providers known to us,
to offer visitors an objective comparison of the respective costs incurred, e.g., for varying subscription durations
(also see our other objective comparisons: the
Eurojackpot price comparison, Keno price comparison, and for the popular German annuity lottery Glücksspirale the corresponding
Glücksspirale price comparison). We note up front
that all information is without guarantee of completeness and accuracy and ask you to verify independently if in doubt.
All data for this comparison were taken from the providers’ current websites*. You can find kiosk prices in the top menu (e.g., Lotto BW
for the comparison Lotto Baden-Württemberg, Lotto BY for Lotto Bavaria, etc.); these sometimes differ greatly from the online prices listed here.
The costs for the processing fees
per ticket can also change at short notice. It should also be noted
that providers’ bonus systems and other discounts
for registered customers may influence the subjective price structure in ways
we cannot reproduce or present here.
To keep this comparison clear, we have omitted add-on games such as Spiel 77 and Super 6. This is primarily because these
have long been offered as add-on games and, when played on the same ticket, do not incur additional
processing fees. For multi-week play, participation on only one draw day (Saturday) was assumed. Interestingly, a few providers (e.g., Lotto Baden-Württemberg and Lotto Hesse)
now offer tickets with up to 14 panels and even 15 panels (Lotto Bavaria). For simplicity, this difference was also not considered and we assumed 12 panels per ticket.