{"id":404020,"date":"2026-08-12T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404020\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:10:08","slug":"lotto-texas-ticket-sold-in-houston-area-wins-26-75-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto Texas ticket sold in Houston area wins $26.75 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/article\/powerball-jackpot-climbs-texas-22383290.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lottery winner<\/a> will take home $26,750,000 from a Lotto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/article\/2-million-powerball-ticket-sold-dallas-tom-thumb-22382338.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas ticket<\/a> that was sold at a Houston area fuel station for Monday night\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket was sold at a Murphy USA gas station in Angleton, a town located about 40 miles south of Houston with a population of about 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The purchased ticket matched all six of the winning numbers: 15, 16, 25, 28, 38 and 53.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Lottery website, winning tickets must be claimed no later than 180 days after the draw date and a presented ticket is not considered valid until it is presented for payment and meets the Texas Lottery&#8217;s validation requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated annuitized jackpot for the next Lotto Texas drawing on Wednesday night is now $5 million with an estimated cash value of $2.64 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lotto Texas tickets are $1 per play, and an additional $1 for the \u201cExtra!\u201d add-on feature for a chance to increase your non-jackpot prizes up to $10,000, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaslottery.com\/export\/sites\/lottery\/Games\/Lotto_Texas\/index.html#HowToPlay\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Lottery website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After buying a ticket, players are prompted to select six numbers from 1 to 54, or choose &#8220;Quick Pick&#8221; to have the terminal pick the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Lotto Texas drawings occur every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:12 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lottery winner will take home $26,750,000 from a Lotto Texas ticket that was sold at a Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-404020","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\/404020","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=404020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}