{"id":402079,"date":"2026-08-09T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:36:07","slug":"2-million-powerball-ticket-sold-aug-8-at-dallas-tom-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402079\/","title":{"rendered":"$2 million Powerball ticket sold Aug. 8 at Dallas Tom Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Texas Powerball.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Texas Powerball\" alt=\"Texas Powerball\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Texas Powerball<\/p>\n<p>            Texas Lottery<\/p>\n<p>A $2 million Powerball winning ticket from the game\u2019s Aug. 8 drawing was bought at a grocery store in Dallas, according to the Texas Lottery website.<\/p>\n<p>The winning ticket was purchased at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texaslottery.com\/export\/sites\/lottery\/Games\/Powerball\/index.html\">Tom Thumb grocery store at 7700 Northwest Highway.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The player matched all five white numbers (5-9-35-54-63) to win $2 million, but not the red Powerball number (7) with the power play bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Powerball drawings are broadcast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:12 p.m. CT and can be viewed online. Players can win the grand prize, which has now increased to $905 million, by matching five white numbers from a field of 69, and one red Powerball number from a field of 26.<\/p>\n<p>Players who choose Power Play for $1 more per ticket can multiply their non-grand prize winnings by two, three, four, five or 10 times.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786311367_802_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Powerball Texas Lottery A $2 million Powerball winning ticket from the game\u2019s Aug. 8 drawing was bought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-402079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402079","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=402079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}