AUSTIN \u2014 In a dramatic, last-minute move, a South Dakota trust has claimed a massive Lotto Texas jackpot\u2014just six days before the winning ticket would have expired.<\/p>\n
The prize, tied to the Nov. 15, 2025 drawing, was secured by Jua-Ri Trust Agreement, Trident Trust Company Inc. of Sioux Falls, which stepped forward to claim the windfall on May 8, narrowly beating the May 14 deadline. Under Texas Lottery rules, winners have 180 days from the draw date to claim their prize\u2014or lose it forever.<\/p>\n
The lucky ticket matched all six numbers\u20147, 17, 23, 28, 39, 48\u2014and was purchased at Gordon\u2019s Bait & Tackle in Brownsville. The player opted for the lump-sum cash payout, walking away with $43.76 million before taxes from the estimated $78 million annuitized jackpot.<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t just any win\u2014it capped off a historic run. The jackpot began at $5 million back in February 2025 and rolled over an eye-popping 116 consecutive drawings before finally being hit, making it the sixth-largest jackpot in Lotto Texas history.<\/p>\n
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Players choose six numbers from 1 to 54 for a shot at multimillion-dollar jackpots. Drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:12 p.m. CT. For an extra dollar, the \u201cExtra!\u201d add-on boosts non-jackpot prizes by up to $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 In a dramatic, last-minute move, a South Dakota trust has claimed a massive Lotto Texas jackpot\u2014just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-288256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256","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=288256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}