{"id":189201,"date":"2026-03-04T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189201\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:28:09","slug":"texas-lottery-confirms-1-million-winner-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189201\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Lottery Confirms $1 Million Winner in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in Lubbock just scored $1 million from the Texas Lottery, thanks to a Quick Pick ticket.\u00a0They\u2019re\u00a0one of only a handful of Powerball winners so far this year, with most of the jackpot winners in\u00a02026\u00a0hitting it big\u00a0with\u00a0scratch-offs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last lottery ticket I bought was a scratch ticket when I bought a few\u00a0for\u00a0stocking stuffers just before Christmas.\u00a0And I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0even remember the last ticket I bought for myself.\u00a0The truth is that\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0a total pessimist when it comes to any sort of gambling, so I rarely\u00a0do it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBZSFM.png\" alt=\"106.3 The Buzz logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1063thebuzz.com\/frisco-2-million-texas-lottery-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ NEXT: Frisco Texas Lottery Ticket Turns Into $2 Million Payday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0if I\u00a0were to buy a Powerball ticket, I would most certainly\u00a0go\u00a0the Quick Pick route.\u00a0The way I see it is that with my luck, if I were to always play the same numbers, those numbers would hit the jackpot the week in which I got busy and forgot to buy a ticket.\u00a0Yeah, someone would have to talk me down off the ledge if that happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough about me. Someone with much better luck than me scored $1 million on a Powerball ticket they bought at\u00a0Stripes Store #42525H,\u00a0located\u00a0at 806 34th St., in Lubbock, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaslottery.com\/export\/sites\/lottery\/Documents\/news_releases\/2026\/03-03-26_Lubbock_1M_Powerball_Prize_-_News_Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a>. The anonymous Lubbock resident matched the five white ball numbers drawn (6-24-39-43-51),\u00a0but not the red\u00a0Powerball\u00a0number (2).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from awarding billions of dollars in prizes to players since its\u00a0inception\u00a0in 1992, the Texas Lottery has also given billions of dollars to support education in the Lone Star State, as well as Texas veterans.<\/p>\n<p>These 12 Texas Lottery Scratch Offs Could Be Your Luckiest Play in March<\/p>\n<p>March is considered a lucky month full of green. There are 12 new Texas Lottery jackpots that could bring the luck of the Irish to you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/michaelgibson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Gibson \/ Townsquare Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 Texas Lottery Scratch Offs Could Make You an Instant Millionaire (Accurate as of February 16, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Texas Lottery scratch offs have some huge jackpots ready for you to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/michaelgibson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Gibson \/ Townsquare Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 New Texas Lottery Scratch Offs with Thousands to Millions to Pay Out (Accurate as of February 3, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>There are several new Texas Lottery scratch offs that could pay out some nice jackpots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/knue.com\/author\/michaelgibson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Gibson \/ Townsquare Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone in Lubbock just scored $1 million from the Texas Lottery, thanks to a Quick Pick ticket.\u00a0They\u2019re\u00a0one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,28],"class_list":["post-189201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}