$32.25 million Lotto Texas jackpot is currently the largest in the USA

Aug 14, 2020, 5:47 pm (47 comments)

Texas Lottery

It's also the second largest in the world

By Kate Northrop

AUSTIN, Tx. — The Texas Lottery is up on the world stage as the Lotto Texas jackpot rolled to $32.35 million after no jackpot-winning tickets were sold for the Wednesday, August 12 drawing, making it the biggest prize in the United States right now.

The estimated annuitized jackpot amount is up for grabs in the next drawing to be held on Saturday, August 15. Not only is it the largest jackpot in North America right now, even above the current advertised $31 million Mega Millions jackpot, but it is also the second-largest jackpot in the world behind the €85 million (US$ 93.71 million) Euro Millions prize.

"Lotto Texas has been on an exciting run, and now the jackpot has emerged as the largest on the continent," Gary Grief, Executive Director of the Texas Lottery Commission said in a news release. "This game has always been a favorite among Texas Lottery players, and we know they will be thrilled to play for one of the largest prizes in the world."

The last time the Lotto Texas jackpot was valued over $30 million was two years ago. A Houston resident claimed an advertised $30.25 million prize on the May 16, 2018 drawing after they purchased the lone winning ticket at MJ's All Season Food Store in Houston.

The Lotto Texas game reached its highest-ever jackpot on June 19, 2004. At a staggering advertised value of $145 million, the jackpot was claimed by VOM Enterprises, Ltd after the sole winning ticket was bought in El Paso.

Only one player has won a Lotto Texas jackpot this year. On January 15, 2020, a Laredo resident claimed the $17.5 million prize.

It remains to be seen whether the Texas Lottery will continue to boast the largest jackpot in the country. Texas players interested in snagging the $32.25 million prize can purchase a lottery ticket for tomorrow's draw at 10:12 pm CT. The Mega Millions jackpot isn't far behind, with the next drawing for the $31 million jackpot scheduled for tonight at 11:00 pm ET.

"We want to remind our players to play responsibly," Grief said in a statement. "It only takes one ticket to win."

The world record for the largest jackpot ever is the $1.586 Powerball drawing held on January 13, 2016.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Bleudog101

That is awesome; puts the big guys to shame IMHO!!

music*'s avatarmusic*

Saturday, August 15th, should be exciting in Texas. This story is likely all over the news there. Who wants to be rich or wealthy? 

Grovel's avatarGrovel

I wonder when the powerball and mega million games are going back to the old rules. Games are horrible the way they are right now.

patrice417

Has  there  been any known  jackpot winner, who claims using Everett Pi Pierce's Pyramid Numerology  equation  method to win. Or is Everett Pi Pierce's method complete B.S?

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

The cash value is even better, at almost 85% of the annuity value vs about 80% for the $31 million MM annuity. The odds are almost 12 times better, too. The odds won't change, but in a little while we'll know if MM has rolled to $40 million.

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

Quote: Originally posted by patrice417 on Aug 14, 2020

Has  there  been any known  jackpot winner, who claims using Everett Pi Pierce's Pyramid Numerology  equation  method to win. Or is Everett Pi Pierce's method complete B.S?

More quick picks are winners than self picks.

It has rolled 60 times since the last winning draw. They sell about 1.3 million tickets for Wednesday's draws, and about 1.9 million tickets for Saturday's draws. Compared to the number of combinations in this game, that's not a lot of tickets.

I've been playing 5 lines since July 22 instead of my normal 1 line.

noise-gate

ln all seriousness rcb, l am pulling for you to hit this jackpot.What a send off that would be, finally knowing your ship came in.White Bounce

HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

It's ridiculous that no ticket has won the jackpot in 7 months!  This states frequent weekly drawings lottery game should have at least a quarterly jackpot winner. No No

jjtheprince14

Bus in players from Florida, California, and New Jersey to buy tickets and I bet it will be won in a hurry.

I'm actually surprised no one is cashing in on lottery tourism.  Hey!  Maybe I should go into that! lol

Bleudog101

And no RNG.

 

Sorry Todd for going off subject.   Just on MA lottery website and said shortly sales of Lucky for Life would end for a new 'BETTER' game in Spring 2021.   Let's translate that....better for the lottery, probably harder to win and maybe switch to RNG.

Todd's avatarTodd

Quote: Originally posted by Bleudog101 on Aug 15, 2020

And no RNG.

 

Sorry Todd for going off subject.   Just on MA lottery website and said shortly sales of Lucky for Life would end for a new 'BETTER' game in Spring 2021.   Let's translate that....better for the lottery, probably harder to win and maybe switch to RNG.

I'm not sure it will be computerized.  I do know it will be changed at some point, but it's not going to be canceled.  Probably just an increased number matrix with a higher "for life" top prize.  The reason Massachusetts is mentioning it right now is because they need to let players know that season tickets will be limited in the run-up to the changes.

Bleudog101

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Aug 15, 2020

I'm not sure it will be computerized.  I do know it will be changed at some point, but it's not going to be canceled.  Probably just an increased number matrix with a higher "for life" top prize.  The reason Massachusetts is mentioning it right now is because they need to let players know that season tickets will be limited in the run-up to the changes.

Maybe to be more in line with Cash 4 Life which IMHO is a slightly better game and better top payouts.  If memory serves me correctly this is drawn in Connecticut and Cash 4 Life is drawn in New Jersey.

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

Quote: Originally posted by HaveABall on Aug 15, 2020

It's ridiculous that no ticket has won the jackpot in 7 months!  This states frequent weekly drawings lottery game should have at least a quarterly jackpot winner. No No

Again, my point was there are 25,827,165 combinations in the game. There are anywhere from 1,300,000 to 1,900,000 tickets sold each draw. A very small percentage of the total combinations. That's not on Texas Lottery. To say it is looks like you think Texas Lottery should make sure there is a winner every quarter. In that case the draws would not be random.

I agree that 60 rolls is quite unusual, but to me it also means the draws are random. This not a RNG game, the draws are mechanical drawn balls. And it is exciting to have a nice jackpot of $27,300,000.

Here's hoping I win tonight!!!

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

"I agree that 60 rolls is quite unusual"

According to lottoreport,com this run has sold 66.6 million tickets. The odds of a winner are 1 in 25,827,165 so they've sold 2.58 as many tickets as can be expected, as a long term average, to produce each winner. The probability of selling at least one winning ticket with those sales is 92.41%, so the flip side is that the probability of selling all those tickets without a winner is 7.59% or about 1 in 13.

That's unlikely, but I wouldn't call it quite unlikely. It is, of course, vastly more likely than the chances of winning any larger prize in a lottery game.

kao1632

"but it is also the  second-largest jackpot in the world behind the €85 million (US$ 93.71 million) Euro Millions prize."

 

They didn't look very hard..

The New Zealand lottery (Powerball) was a "must win" NZ$50 million on Saturday (15 Aug 2020)

That equates (using https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?From=NZD&To=USD&Amount=50000000.00 )

"

50,000,000 NZD =  32,703,038.5 USD

Mid-market  rate 
1  NZD  =  0.65406  USD
US$32.70 million > US$32.35 million
And that is the full amount. Not an annuity (Mind, the (€85 million (US$ 93.71 million)) is also not an annuity)
that drops the Texas lottery "jackpot" to third place
Just saying :)
HiFi's avatarHiFi

Quote: Originally posted by Grovel on Aug 14, 2020

I wonder when the powerball and mega million games are going back to the old rules. Games are horrible the way they are right now.

They should change the name to Softball and Mini Millions.  I miss the days of 400 million to 1 billion jackpots.

hearsetrax's avatarhearsetrax

Quote: Originally posted by HiFi on Aug 16, 2020

They should change the name to Softball and Mini Millions.  I miss the days of 400 million to 1 billion jackpots.

😒we all do, HiFi 

Ranett's avatarRanett

I miss the days of 1 dollar tickets.  As it is now, I hardly buy any MM/PB tickets as they have become very unappealing.

Bleudog101

I Agree!  At this rate my take two years to get even close to a billion.  What I miss most was the EXCITEMENT when it got sky high and which ever lottery it was would throw in another $50 million or so and the frenzy was incredible.   Here in KY they updated their signs to LED so it could reflect let's say $1 Billion.

KLC sent me a message this morning asking if I heard of Win, Place or Show a new $2 lotto.   Said I hadn't so went to the store to play one being the first day.  Of course horse country would have a lottery like that...so we'll see.

Now back to TX lotto...when do they update their own lottery jackpots?

noise-gate

Hmm, l wonder if buckeye would show up to let the forum know he bagged this one? Questions, questions..

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

Quote: Originally posted by Bleudog101 on Aug 16, 2020

I Agree!  At this rate my take two years to get even close to a billion.  What I miss most was the EXCITEMENT when it got sky high and which ever lottery it was would throw in another $50 million or so and the frenzy was incredible.   Here in KY they updated their signs to LED so it could reflect let's say $1 Billion.

KLC sent me a message this morning asking if I heard of Win, Place or Show a new $2 lotto.   Said I hadn't so went to the store to play one being the first day.  Of course horse country would have a lottery like that...so we'll see.

Now back to TX lotto...when do they update their own lottery jackpots?

Usually the jackpot amount is updated within 30-45 minutes after the draw. I like that.

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Aug 16, 2020

Hmm, l wonder if buckeye would show up to let the forum know he bagged this one? Questions, questions..

 If I'm ever that lucky, I would still be on the forum.

Texas is an anonymous state. I like that. No need to let the whole world know.

Think's avatarThink

If only we could all buy tickets across state lines.  The states collect sales tax across state lines but refuse to let the lotteries compete across state lines.  Competition would make the lotteries better.

The best part of this Texas sized JP is that Texas has no state income tax on it and you can claim it and go for the anonymous option too.

I don't understand why the foreign ticket butler services don't buy all their PB and MM in Texas.

Too bad we all can't just play whichever state games we want when we want.

kao1632

Quote: Originally posted by Think on Aug 16, 2020

If only we could all buy tickets across state lines.  The states collect sales tax across state lines but refuse to let the lotteries compete across state lines.  Competition would make the lotteries better.

The best part of this Texas sized JP is that Texas has no state income tax on it and you can claim it and go for the anonymous option too.

I don't understand why the foreign ticket butler services don't buy all their PB and MM in Texas.

Too bad we all can't just play whichever state games we want when we want.

As a non-resident alien (New Zealand citizen living in NZ) I would be exempt State tax (In some cases they won't even deduct withholding tax. In other cases, you probably have to lodge a claim for a refund).  Federal tax (for a non-resident alien) is (generally) limited to the withholding tax rate of 30%.  -- that applies to any taxable prize US$600 and above, so we tend tp lose out on the lesser prizes)

 

So tax-wise for a non-resident alien buying using a butler service, there is no difference between the states. The real difference is in the ability to remain anonymous ... that may vary between the services...

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

"I would be exempt State tax "

No, you'd pay whatever tax the state imposes on income earned in the state by any non-resident.

Big Joey

And the Thunder Rolls, and Lighting Strikes! No winner on Saturday, means a larger jackpot for Wednesday!!!

Est. Annuitized Jackpot for 08/19/2020 is:

$33.25 Million

Est. Cash Value

$28 Million

Bleudog101

I wish they'd revamp that outdated 1961 law...heck Internet wasn't even thought of--so we could buy tickets across state lines on-line or over the phone.   

Salvation Salve

Is there a way to play the jackpot from India?

noise-gate

Quote: Originally posted by Salvation Salve on Aug 17, 2020

Is there a way to play the jackpot from India?

Yes,through a " butler service." They purchase the ticket or tickets for you within the country the jackpot is played.

Salvation Salve

Any service that you can recommend as online it's really hard to tell which site is geniune.

Todd's avatarTodd

If you are looking for a place to play USA lotteries from overseas, go to USA Mega and click on any of the colored jackpot boxes on the right side in the Marketplace section.  That is the only service recommended, as they have known jackpot winners in the past, and all have successfully claimed their prizes.

Salvation Salve

Thank you Todd!!!

Wildman1988's avatarWildman1988

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SaraAnnRapp's avatarSaraAnnRapp

Quote: Originally posted by HaveABall on Aug 15, 2020

It's ridiculous that no ticket has won the jackpot in 7 months!  This states frequent weekly drawings lottery game should have at least a quarterly jackpot winner. No No

I feel your pain. In WI the state Megabucks game can go almost three years without a jackpot win. Sure it's a smaller population but it's ridiculous and discouraging nonetheless. Dead

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HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

Quote: Originally posted by SaraAnnRapp on Aug 17, 2020

I feel your pain. In WI the state Megabucks game can go almost three years without a jackpot win. Sure it's a smaller population but it's ridiculous and discouraging nonetheless. Dead

Jeez.

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

"Jeez."

Don't believe everything you read.

winoneday

As of today, August 20, how many times in a row has the Lotto Texas jackpot rolled?

Thanks.

noise-gate

Quote: Originally posted by winoneday on Aug 21, 2020

As of today, August 20, how many times in a row has the Lotto Texas jackpot rolled?

Thanks.

It's rolling until buckeye brings it to its knees. A worthy inheritor Approve

winoneday

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Aug 23, 2020

It's rolling until buckeye brings it to its knees. A worthy inheritor Approve

I did not ask how many times the jackpot will roll. I asked how many times the jackpot has rolled.

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

1. Read the article.
2. Consult a calendar.
3. Count.

noise-gate

Quote: Originally posted by winoneday on Aug 23, 2020

I did not ask how many times the jackpot will roll. I asked how many times the jackpot has rolled.

As President Reagan often said, " There you go again."

winoneday

On the Internet, nobody knows if you are a dog, but they know if you are an ahole.

KY Floyd's avatarKY Floyd

It's far easier to tell that somebody's a helpless moron.

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