Each will take home €17.5 million in prize money, the Baden-Württemberg state- owned company said.
The two winners picked the numbers that came up during Saturday’s lottery drawing in a huge jackpot that had Germans racing to corner stores to buy tickets in a country worried about a worsening recession.
Another twelve players from around the country will take home a combined sum of €424,000, the lottery company said.
The Lotto drawing brought in some €127.3 million into state coffers in the last week – 50 percent more than the previous week.
The 11-drawing jackpot began growing on December 20, with odds growing to 1 in 140 million by Saturday. If there had been no winners this weekend, the jackpot would have been mandatorily dropped after the thirteenth drawing.
A nurse won Germany’s largest-ever lotto jackpot of €37.6 million in October 2006.
This week’s winning numbers were 7, 9, 11, 14, 17 and 31.
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