How to Buy & Play

Every lottery player has experienced that moment: the queue at the shop counter moves slowly, the clock creeps towards closing time, and the question arises whether the ticket will still make it into tonight’s draw. Deadlines decide the fate of millions of coupons every week, and they differ more than most players expect — between …

A German expat in Spain wants to fill in the same Lotto ticket she played every Saturday in Berlin. A traveller in Thailand wonders whether a VPN pointing to Frankfurt would let him chase the next Eurojackpot. Questions like these arrive at lottery support desks every week, and the answers are less obvious than most …

Twice a week, millions of German households go quiet at exactly the same moment: numbers are about to be drawn. The Saturday draw carries the weight of tradition — it has been part of the German week since the Lotto- und Totoblock was founded in the 1950s — while its Wednesday sibling, added in 1982, …