5 Texas Lottery Scratch Offs That Are Overdue to Pay Out Millions
There are currently 79 active Texas Lottery scratch-off games. They range in cost from $1 up to $100, with top-tier payouts of up to $20 million. The odds of winning the top prize of any scratch-off game is about 1 in 2,000,000...give or take.
Getting Better Odds
On the Texas Lottery website, you will find a 'Scratch Tickets' link on the top toolbar. Click on that and one of your choices will be the 'Current Games List'.
On this page, you can also see a list of all the current scratch-off games and you can find out how many of the top-tier prizes of each game have been won. Compare that percentage to the percentage of lower-tier prizes that have been won, and you can get a pretty reliable indication of which games should have a little bit better than usual chance of paying out their big jackpots.
These Games Are Overdue to Payout Top Prizes
After studying the data on the Texas Lottery website, It looks like the top jackpots of the following five games have a better chance than normal of paying out.
Jackpot Millions - $20 Ticket
This game features 4 top prizes of $1 million. None of those have been claimed. Approximately 20% of this game's tickets have been sold statewide.
Hit $1 Million - $20 Ticket
This game features 4 top prizes of $1 million. None of those have been claimed. Approximately 30% of this game's tickets have been sold statewide.
$400 million megabucks - $100 ticket
Yeah, I know...it's hard to plop down a C-note with the risk of just throwing $100 down the drain.
However, all four of this game's $3 million jackpots are waiting to be won. As a whole, around 28% of this game's cards have been bought.
200X Power Blitz - $20 ticket
This game is still waiting for one of their four $1 million dollar jackpots to be claimed. Approximately 40% of this game's cards have been bought.
Super Loteria - $5 card
Ten people have won the top prize of $100,000 for this game. That leaves five other top prizes just waiting to be won.
Around 90% of this game's cards have been bought, leaving a smaller and smaller pool of scratch-offs, five of which contain $100,000 winners.
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