{"id":55699,"date":"2025-11-19T04:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:58:13","slug":"unclaimed-78m-lottery-ticket-sold-in-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55699\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclaimed $78M lottery ticket sold in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763528293_218_LOTTO-TEXAS.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Lotto Texas-Texas Lottery <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">BROWNSVILLE, Texas &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lottery<\/a> ticket sold in South Texas over the weekend worth $78 million has yet to be claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">If the winner doesn&#8217;t come forward, the Lotto Texas ticket will expire in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Winning Lotto Texas ticket  <\/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 winning ticket was sold at Gordon\u2019s Bait &amp; Tackle at 7066 Padre Island Highway, in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The winner selected their own numbers, the release from the Texas Lottery Commission said. The winning numbers were 7-17-23-28-39-48.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The cash-value option was chosen when the ticket was purchased, so the winner will receive $43.6 million before taxes when they claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The win clocks in at the sixth-largest in the history of Lotto Texas, just behind an $83.5 million winning ticket sold in Austin Feb. 17, 2025. November&#8217;s jackpot started growing Feb. 19, when the prize reset at $5 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">If the winner does not come forward, the ticket will expire May 14, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Texas Lottery seeks winner <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We are thrilled that a lucky player purchased the jackpot-winning ticket for this long-awaited Lotto Texas jackpot win, which is one of the largest in the game\u2019s history,&#8221; said Courtney Arbour, executive director of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), which oversees the Texas Lottery. &#8220;We look forward to meeting and congratulating the winner when they come forward to claim the prize. Texans can feel confident that wins like this are supported by secure, well-managed games under TDLR. If you believe you are the lucky ticket holder, please sign your ticket, keep it in a safe place, seek financial and legal advice, and call the Texas Lottery to schedule an appointment to claim your prize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Texas Lottery Commission.\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 Lotto Texas-Texas Lottery BROWNSVILLE, Texas &#8211; A lottery ticket sold in South Texas over the weekend worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55681,"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-55699","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\/55699","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=55699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}