The Biggest Austria Lotto JackPot Winners
Before talking about the Austria Lotto jackpot, let’s remind some general facts about this lottery game. Austria Lotto was first introduced to the people as the flagship lottery game of Osterreichische Lotterien in September 1986. It is a traditional lottery game that pulls on the possibility of winning through the 6/45 matrix. The player is to choose 6 numbers from 1 to 45. From the same range of numbers, the winning set is drawn every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm CET.
Ever since Austria Lotto was recognized as one of the lottery games under EuroMillions, the number of millionaires created continues to multiply. Needless to say the thousands and thousands of players who win consolation prizes every draw. One thing about Austria lotto is the rollover of prize that happens whenever a draw has no winning jackpot ticket. The jackpot prize continues to grow and people are more eager to buy tickets and increase their chance of winning the highest pot at stake. As a matter of fact, the biggest prize recorded for Austrian lottery is the one that was given on the 8th of January 2012. The amount of € 3,652,294 was won by a single player only. This is the biggest since the average jackpot prize for this Austria lotto is € 1,953,971 only. January 2012 must have been the most shining month for the Austria lotto players as the game created a number of 3,754,689 lottery winners. For this month alone, a total of € 23,553,195 was won by the lottery winners. The figures are perhaps the result of the rolling over of the jackpot prize for four times just in the same month.
There are also records of the consolation prizes given to the players whose winning tickets get only 5, 4 or 3 numbers from the winning set. Austria Lotto is also giving away a huge amount of money for the second, third, fourth and fifth level of winnings.
