{"id":35539,"date":"2025-11-05T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:24:07","slug":"texas-powerball-ticket-nearly-wins-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35539\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Powerball ticket nearly wins jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lottery_1493137305087_3202755_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TEXAS &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas Powerball<\/a> player isn&#8217;t a multi-millionaire after Monday&#8217;s drawing, but they&#8217;re still a sight richer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The player got four of five numbers correct, the Powerball number, and even walked away with a Power Play multiplier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Texas player nearly scores Powerball jackpot  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The buyer matched four of the winning numbers, which were 3, 32, 40, 43 and 57. They also hit the Powerball of 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">With a Power Play multiplier of x2, the winner pocketed $100,000 in total.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">If they&#8217;d hit the final number as well, they&#8217;d have been the sole winner of the $419 million jackpot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">There were a total of 29,976 Texas winners in Monday&#8217;s drawing, the Texas Lottery said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The identity of the winner was not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Texas Powerball jackpot climbs <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Since the jackpot wasn&#8217;t claimed, the new estimated jackpot for Wednesday&#8217;s drawing is $438 million with a cash value of $207 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> How to know if you have won Powerball <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Powerball tickets cost $2, or $3 with the Power Play multiplier, and the game is offered in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Powerball drawings are also livestreamed on Powerball.com.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The order of matching numbers doesn&#8217;t matter to win the drawing. That means as long as the numbers on your ticket match the ones announced, no matter the order, you win the prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">If you hit it big and win the jackpot, the amount of money you get will depend on where you live. Texas residents aren&#8217;t subject to state taxes on their winnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report came from the Texas Lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TEXAS &#8211; A Texas Powerball player isn&#8217;t a multi-millionaire after Monday&#8217;s drawing, but they&#8217;re still a sight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3822,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-35539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-lottery","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539","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=35539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}