{"id":369591,"date":"2026-07-11T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:14:08","slug":"1m-texas-powerball-ticket-awaits-winner-heres-where-it-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369591\/","title":{"rendered":"$1M Texas Powerball ticket awaits winner. Here&#8217;s where it sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick pit stop at the gas station turned one lucky Texan into a millionaire in this week&#8217;s Powerball drawing. However, that luck hasn&#8217;t quite tapped its winner yet, as the ticket remains unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Quick Pick ticket matched the white ball numbers 12, 29, 37, 43 and 55, but missed the Powerball, 18, leaving it one number shy of the estimated $434 million jackpot.\u00a0The ticket did not include the Power Play option, which would have doubled the prize to $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Lottery winners have 180 days from the drawing date to claim their prize. If the ticket goes unclaimed, the money will be transferred to the state&#8217;s unclaimed prize fund, which has collected more than $300 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/texas-lottery-unclaimed-tickets-18406852.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">unclaimed lottery winnings <\/a>since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Bastrop winner isn&#8217;t the only millionaire who has yet to come forward. Another $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Austin for the Feb. 2 drawing remains unclaimed and will expire if it is not validated by Aug. 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/lifestyle\/article\/powerball-unclaimed-texas-22328434.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to previous reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $457 million for Saturday night&#8217;s drawing, with a cash value of $205 million. Lotto Texas will also be drawing Saturday for an $18.5 million prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quick pit stop at the gas station turned one lucky Texan into a millionaire in this week&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-369591","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\/369591","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=369591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}