One ticket wins $15M Lotto Texas jackpot

Nov 2, 2018, 3:57 pm (24 comments)

Texas Lottery

AUSTIN, Texas — Someone who purchased a lottery ticket in Wichita Falls, Texas, won a $15.25 million jackpot Wednesday.

The winner purchased the ticket at Fill N Chill in the 3100 block of Northwest Freeway.

The Quick Pick ticket matched all six of the numbers drawn (3, 8, 13, 25, 33, and 44). The cash value option was selected at the time of purchase and the claimant will receive $10,004,308.25.

The prize has not yet been claimed. The winner has 180 days from the draw date to claim the prize.

"If you have the winning ticket, we encourage you to sign the ticket, put it in a safe place, seek financial and legal advice, and call the Texas Lottery before coming to Austin to claim the prize. We look forward to meeting you," said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery.

Because Texas offers jackpot winners the option to remain anonymous, it is likely we won't learn who won the massive payout.

In addition to the jackpot-winning prize, six tickets matched five numbers and chose the Lotto Extra! feature to win $11,015.

The retailer will not receive a bonus for selling the winning ticket due to a legislative change that took effect Sept. 1.

The winning Lotto Texas jackpot started as a $5 million prize on Aug. 15, and rolled 22 times before being won Wednesday night. The jackpot for the next Lotto Texas drawing on Saturday will reset to $5 million.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Bleudog101

Congratulations.

 

Ummm second to last paragraph retailers don't get anything anymore due to a legislative change.  Sometime ago didn't some pols there want to abolish the lottery?? 

noise-gate

Come on LP Texans, step up to the plate & own it. We knew you finally nailed it, you sly dogs.Approve

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

LurkingLurking   I am patiently waiting for Rcbbuckeye's comment on this one.......

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Nov 2, 2018

LurkingLurking   I am patiently waiting for Rcbbuckeye's comment on this one.......

Well....

I'll get bleeped again.

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Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Nov 2, 2018

Well....

I'll get bleeped again.

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I feel for the Texans who are Lottery Post Members that did not win. 

 We will never know if the winner is an LP Member.  The right to remain anonymous is powerful.

Cheers

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Nov 2, 2018

Well....

I'll get bleeped again.

Cussing Face

Green laugh

Way ta goooo....... MR RODGERS !!!

TheMeatman2005's avatarTheMeatman2005

Quote: Originally posted by Bleudog101 on Nov 2, 2018

Congratulations.

 

Ummm second to last paragraph retailers don't get anything anymore due to a legislative change.  Sometime ago didn't some pols there want to abolish the lottery?? 

A store near me sold a NYS Lotto winning quick-pick 6/6 ticket worth $11.6 mil and all they got was the 6 cents commission from selling the ticket.

If it had been a MM or PB ticket, they would have received $10,000

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

I won ? I won what ?

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

Did I win ? Am I a winner ?

s5thomps's avatars5thomps

There is a Air Force base named Sheppard in Wichita Falls. It could be some Young Airman that just joined the service. It's a air training base.US Flag

bobby623's avatarbobby623

I bought five lines.
Extra play = $2 per line. $10 total.
Match 2 on one line.
Won $2
Whoopi!!

Technut's avatarTechnut

Quote: Originally posted by bobby623 on Nov 3, 2018

I bought five lines.
Extra play = $2 per line. $10 total.
Match 2 on one line.
Won $2
Whoopi!!

I bought 5 lines with extra also cost $10 won $13 WOW a big $3 winner hehe (c8

deja vu's avatardeja vu

"For many years, the Texas Lottery’s retailer bonus program has been an important retailer recruiting and retention tool for the sales organization to utilize. Decisions by the 85th Legislature and Governor on the FY 2018 – 2019 budget affect all aspects of the state’s budget, including Texas Lottery operations. The $4.2 million annual retailer bonus budget was vetoed by the Governor and was zeroed out in the second year of the 2018 – 2019 biennium. The long-established bonus program will be phased out at the end of FY 2018 and bonuses will not be available in FY 2019."

In other words we want to use this money the way we want screw the retailers.

oate's avataroate

Quote: Originally posted by deja vu on Nov 5, 2018

"For many years, the Texas Lottery’s retailer bonus program has been an important retailer recruiting and retention tool for the sales organization to utilize. Decisions by the 85th Legislature and Governor on the FY 2018 – 2019 budget affect all aspects of the state’s budget, including Texas Lottery operations. The $4.2 million annual retailer bonus budget was vetoed by the Governor and was zeroed out in the second year of the 2018 – 2019 biennium. The long-established bonus program will be phased out at the end of FY 2018 and bonuses will not be available in FY 2019."

In other words we want to use this money the way we want screw the retailers.

I hope the retailers get organized and stop selling TX lottery products.  Being a lottery retailer means extra overhead and needing to hire more people. Without the bonus program, it's probably not worth being a retailer for many of the little mom-and-pop convenience stores.

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

waiting for notification Hurray!

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

How how can I get a window tape for my account for My account booking? Is this the tickets I won ?

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

"Without the bonus program, it's probably not worth being a retailer"

A retailer who sells lottery tickets because they're hoping for a bonus is nearly as delusional as a player who plans to fund their retirement with their winnings. If that $4.2 million budgeted for retailers was split among all retailers it would average about $5 per week for each retailer. Judging from the hiring signs I see in local convenience stores that would get them extra help for 20 to 30 minutes per week, so they'd better have a different strategy for paying employees to sell tickets.

Of course the bonus money isn't split evenly, because the bonuses only go to the retailers whose customers win significant prizes with steep odds. On average a retailer would need to sell more than 300,000 tickets to get the bonus for Cash Five. More than 1.6 million tickets for Triple Chance. And then there's MM and PB. Assuming bonuses for that came from the annual budget a big portion of the it wouldn't be paid to any retailer in the years that TX doesn't sell a PB or MM winner. Since Texas did have a $151 million PB winner last June nearly 1/4th of the bonus money would have gone to a single retailer.

OTOH, in 2017 the average retailer commission was almost $15k, or about $60 for every dollar in the bonus budget.

oate's avataroate

Quote: Originally posted by KY Floyd on Dec 19, 2018

"Without the bonus program, it's probably not worth being a retailer"

A retailer who sells lottery tickets because they're hoping for a bonus is nearly as delusional as a player who plans to fund their retirement with their winnings. If that $4.2 million budgeted for retailers was split among all retailers it would average about $5 per week for each retailer. Judging from the hiring signs I see in local convenience stores that would get them extra help for 20 to 30 minutes per week, so they'd better have a different strategy for paying employees to sell tickets.

Of course the bonus money isn't split evenly, because the bonuses only go to the retailers whose customers win significant prizes with steep odds. On average a retailer would need to sell more than 300,000 tickets to get the bonus for Cash Five. More than 1.6 million tickets for Triple Chance. And then there's MM and PB. Assuming bonuses for that came from the annual budget a big portion of the it wouldn't be paid to any retailer in the years that TX doesn't sell a PB or MM winner. Since Texas did have a $151 million PB winner last June nearly 1/4th of the bonus money would have gone to a single retailer.

OTOH, in 2017 the average retailer commission was almost $15k, or about $60 for every dollar in the bonus budget.

The top-prize bonus programs are more lucrative and consistent than you realize because you're forgetting the bonuses for scratchers and instant draw games top prizes. It's especially sweet if you own a store that is the only or one of a few lottery retailers in certain radius. The Pareto principle is in full effect.

And no, the standard cash bonus programs and standard commissions do not always make up for the hassles and headaches of selling lottery products in the first place. I won't elaborate but to say employee wages, theft, training, and time-wasting are only part of it. My folks stopped selling them at their stores long ago and don't regret it.

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

I'm not forgetting bonuses for any of the games. There's no getting around what the average payout is or how the total bonus budget actually gets split up. That $4.2 million was spread over nearly 17,000 retailers, with a significant portion going to just a very few of them. Being a seller gives you better odds than being a player, but there's still only a small chance of collecting a good bonus, and the bigger the bonus the less likely it is.

A significant portion of retailers won't even collect as much as the $5 per week average, because a large portion of the bonus budget goes to that small handful of lucky retailers. Of course there's always a tiny chance that a retailer who only earns 10k in commissions will be lucky enough to win 5 or 10k or even more as a bonus, but probability works for retailers the same way ot works for players - the bonuses are more likely to go to the retailers who are earning bigger commissions by selling more tickets. If any of the bonuses were consistent then they'd be even more likely to go to the retailers already earning bigger commissions by selling more tickets.

In the end it's still the relative earnings of $60 in commissions for each $1 in bonuses. Selling the tickets based on the possibility of bonuses is a bit like working a job for a Christmas bonus instead of the weekly paycheck.

Coin Toss's avatarCoin Toss

Lotteries (as with all gambling entities) just bring out the greed in everybody involved, the players, the lottery commission and the state.

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

Check all the results for the past draws from our biggest draws on our lotto results page

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Nov 2, 2018

Green laugh

Way ta goooo....... MR RODGERS !!!

No connection what to exchange awards Dupe Alert

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

Quote: Originally posted by oate on Dec 19, 2018

The top-prize bonus programs are more lucrative and consistent than you realize because you're forgetting the bonuses for scratchers and instant draw games top prizes. It's especially sweet if you own a store that is the only or one of a few lottery retailers in certain radius. The Pareto principle is in full effect.

And no, the standard cash bonus programs and standard commissions do not always make up for the hassles and headaches of selling lottery products in the first place. I won't elaborate but to say employee wages, theft, training, and time-wasting are only part of it. My folks stopped selling them at their stores long ago and don't regret it.

Who ,winner , not notified ? 

Xinyuhuang's avatarXinyuhuang

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