Bits & Odds

Texas Lottery Results and Winning Numbers

Every game's newest draws, to October 3, 2026. Below them: what a ticket costs in Texas, which add-ons Texas Lottery sells, and what it is worth — with the arithmetic shown.

Latest Texas lottery results

Power Play is on sale in Texas; Double Play is not, so a Texas ticket tops out at $3 a line. At the jackpot standing after the September 30, 2026 draw, a $2 Powerball ticket bought in Texas is worth $0.87, 44c on the dollar, and Texas withholds nothing. The best Texas scratch-off on sale returns 80c — no jackpot, but far more of the money comes back. Every one, ranked.

Multi-state games in Texas

What is different in Texas

Ticket price
$3 a line, all in
$2 base plus $1 each for Power Play.
Power Play
On sale — $1
Multiplies every prize below the jackpot by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10. We make the extra dollar worth about 46c.
Double Play
Not sold here
One of the 18 jurisdictions that do not offer it; the other 30 do.
Prize structure
Fixed, as the chart
The published amounts are what you are paid — Texas does not adjust them for sales.
State withholding
None
No income tax. Federal withholding of 24% applies on top, everywhere.
Minimum age
18
Texas Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher.

Rules read from powerball.com and Texas Lottery on 2026-09-22. Withholding rates and the calculator.

Texas Lottery's own games

These are drawn in Texas, for Texas, and we hold every draw of them on record.

Texas lottery tools

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Texas lottery questions

What lottery games can you play in Texas?
Mega Millions and Powerball, plus Texas Lottery's own games: Pick 3, Daily 4, All or Nothing, Cash Five, Lotto Texas, Texas Two Step. We hold the full draw history for all of them.
Does Texas sell Power Play and Double Play?
Power Play, yes — $1 a play. Double Play, no: 30 of the 48 lotteries sell it and Texas is not one of them, so a Texas line tops out at $3.
How much tax does Texas withhold from lottery winnings?
Nothing — no income tax. Federal withholding of 24% still applies. The calculator does the rest.
Which Texas lottery game has the best odds?
Mega Millions, at 1 in 23.07 of winning something — though the prizes are correspondingly smaller, and winning often is not the same as winning much. A scratch-off is a different proposition again: the best on sale in Texas now returns about 80 cents on the dollar.
Where do these Texas numbers come from?
Straight from Texas Lottery's own published results, read every day, and the multi-state games are cross-checked against several official sources before we publish them. Every source is listed here. The Texas rules on this page were read from powerball.com and Texas Lottery on 2026-09-22.

About the Texas Lottery

Texas Lottery sells Powerball and Mega Millions alongside its own games. You must be 18 to buy a ticket, and a winning ticket has to be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was sold. texaslottery.com

Every jurisdiction is listed on the lottery hub — including Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, which run no lottery at all.