A lottery ticket - Part 1

The most popular German lottery is called 6 out of 49. You simply have to choose 6 numbers out of 49. Pretty easy, ain't it ?! Well, you have a chance of 1:14,000,000 to do it properly. (To win the jackpot you have a chance of 1:140,000,000).

At first, there's the need for finding the right numbers. No easy job.
Secondly, you have to fill in the blank lottery ticket: Above is a picture of the online formular, taken from www.westlotto.de.

Westlotto belongs to the German lottery block and is responsible for the Federal State of North-Rhine Westfalia. That's the German State I live in.

The hardware style paper formular looks very similar. You usually fill in your paper ticket with your local kiosk. The filled ticket can be discarded after having been fed into the lottery computer.

The numbers are fed into the computer by inserting the filled in ticket into the slot of the machine. You'll get your receipt. Don't loose it as your name is not written down on it. So, in case your ticket wins, it's the only way to claim your gains.


A lottery receipt for the first prize usually looks like this:









As you can see, the ticket is still valid.