German Player Wins €39.5m Eurojackpot
- A player from Schleswig-Holstein has won €39,496,021.60 in the Eurojackpot using an €8 online ticket.
- The win is Germany's third Eurojackpot top-tier prize in a matter of weeks, following wins of €32m and €87m earlier this year.
- Germany has now claimed exactly half of all 198 first-tier Eurojackpot prizes since the draw launched in March 2012.
A lottery player from Schleswig-Holstein has won €39,496,021.60 in the Eurojackpot, becoming the third German millionaire produced by the pan-European draw in a matter of weeks, Westdeutsche Lotterie announced on Tuesday from Münster.
An €8 ticket, a nine-figure windfall
The winning numbers drawn were 4, 5, 7, 48 and 50, with Euronumbers 4 and 5. The ticket was purchased online for just €8, and a lottery spokesperson confirmed that the winner's identity is already known to the operator as a result of the digital submission. The gender of the winner has not been disclosed.
Third German jackpot winner in weeks
The win follows two other large German victories in rapid succession. In early August, a player from North Rhine-Westphalia claimed more than €32 million, while in June a separate player from the same state took home more than €87 million. Tuesday's prize marks only the second time the top tier has been won in Schleswig-Holstein; the first was in June 2023, when a player there collected the maximum sum of €120 million.
Since the Eurojackpot's inaugural draw in March 2012, the top prize has been won 198 times in total. Germany accounts for exactly half of those victories, with 99 first-tier wins recorded across all participating countries.
Other winners from Tuesday's draw
In the second prize tier, a player from Hungary will receive €1,394,682.50. The third tier produced seven winners sharing prizes of €157,307.20 each: five tickets from Bavaria, two from Schleswig-Holstein, and one each from Estonia and Norway.
How the draw works
The Eurojackpot is drawn every Tuesday and Friday in Helsinki, Finland. Players select five numbers from 1 to 50 and two Euronumbers from 1 to 12. Matching all seven numbers is required for the top prize, with odds of approximately 1 in 140 million. The next jackpot, scheduled for Friday, stands at €10 million. Lottery victories of this magnitude remain relatively rare — though billion-dollar jackpots have been recorded elsewhere, Europe's Eurojackpot has a statutory cap of €120 million.
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