{"id":372914,"date":"2026-07-14T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372914\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:32:08","slug":"new-braunfels-resident-claims-20m-scratch-ticket-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372914\/","title":{"rendered":"New Braunfels resident claims $20M scratch ticket prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/comal-county\/new-braunfels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Braunfels<\/a> resident has won $20 million with a top prize-winning ticket in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas Lottery<\/a>&#8216;s scratch ticket game $20 Million Supreme.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">\u00a0The claimant, who purchased the ticket at a New Braunfels H-E-B, has elected to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been playing Texas Lottery scratch ticket games for about 15 years. I love the thrill of the instant win,&#8221; said the claimant in a release from the Texas Lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">After uncovering the game\u2019s $20 million top prize, the claimant checked the ticket repeatedly, saying: &#8220;My first reaction was, \u2018Wow!\u2019 After I scratched the ticket, I kept looking at it to make sure the numbers matched. I must have checked it a dozen times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The claimant says they plan to use the money to pay off debts and invest in their grandchildren&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The H-E-B may also be eligible for a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket under the Texas Lottery\u2019s Retailer Bonus Program.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Texas Lottery says this was the fourth and final top prize worth $20 million to be claimed in this game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The $20 Million Supreme game offered more than $829 million in total prizes. Overall odds of winning a prize of $150 or more were one in 3.49, with prizes starting at $150.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Players with winning tickets from this game have until Feb. 17 to claim a prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/lottery\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lottery<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/comal-county\/new-braunfels\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Braunfels<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/money\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Money<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas &#8211; A New Braunfels resident has won $20 million with a top prize-winning ticket in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,11849,3822,2349,359,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-372914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-comal-county","tag-lottery","tag-money","tag-new-braunfels","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372914","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=372914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}