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Lotto revolution: bonus draws bring new chances of winning!
Find out everything about the new lottery bonus draws, which offer additional chances to win from July 25, 2025.
Lotto revolution: bonus draws bring new chances of winning!
On July 12, 2025, there was an important change for lottery players in Austria: the introduction of bonus draws, which will now take place every second Friday. Loud 5min.at The first of these additional draws took place on July 11, 2025. In the last draw, no participant was able to guess the “six correct ones”, which increases the jackpot for the next draw on Sunday to around 1.3 million euros.
Five lucky participants from Carinthia, Lower Austria, Vorarlberg and Vienna were each able to win holiday money of 50,000 euros in the bonus draw. These amounts were issued under the receipt numbers 6880031384 (Carinthia), 6880046701 (Lower Austria), 6880207325 (Vorarlberg), 6880591479 (Lower Austria) and 6971533905 (Vienna), as ots.at reported.
Bonus draws at a glance
The new bonus draws are integrated into the regular drawing rhythm. In each of these draws, an additional 30,000 euros will be raffled off among all tickets. A total of twelve bonus draws are planned for 2025, which will take place as follows:
- 25. Juli 2025
- 8. August 2025
- 22. August 2025
- 5. September 2025
- 19. September 2025
- 3. Oktober 2025
- 17. Oktober 2025
- 31. Oktober 2025
- 14. November 2025
- 28. November 2025
- 12. Dezember 2025
- 26. Dezember 2025
The next bonus drawing will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025, hosted by Lisa Makas.
Current lottery trends
Lotto is very popular in Germany. Loud Statista Around one in three Germans regularly plays the lottery, and in 2022 more than 180 people became lottery millionaires. The most popular form of the game remains the “6 out of 49” lottery. This lottery makes up a significant part of the gambling market and generated sales of eight billion euros in 2022.
Although the number of lottery players in Germany is high, Statista reports that younger people in particular take part in the draws comparatively rarely. Around 60 percent of people over 45 play at least once a year, while only five percent of 18 to 25 year olds play the lottery. In addition, the jackpot remains a key attraction, especially if it exceeds the €13 million mark, which could be the case in the upcoming draw.
The changes and new ways to win could help increase interest and participation in the game even further. Players can be excited to see what the next draws will bring.