Texas Lottery, Powerball Confirm Massive Monday Win

This morning the holiday lights up at Moody Gardens on Galveston Island is coated in a fine mist. Much of the upper Texas coast, including High Island, Galveston, Beaumont and the Greater Houston Metro area is under one Dense fog advisory. But like the red nose on one certain Christmas reindeerthe “bright red beacon of life-changing riches” also known as Powerball shone brightly last night in the great state of Texas.

If you remember the Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, you know that there is a song performed during the show called “There’s always tomorrow”. It is sung by Clarice, Rudolph’s love interest in the holiday special. And for Powerball players in Texas, that feeling must apply.

That’s because the big money wins on Monday, according to the Texas Lotterywas not generated by multi-state Powerball game. The biggest prizes came from the game we’ve told you’re ready to pay and pay big, Lotto Texas with extra!

Before we get to the nearly $100,000 in Lotto Texas winning tickets, let’s show you the Powerball drawing.

The estimated annuitized top premium i Monday night’s Powerball was $58.1 million. The one-time payout was an estimated $27.1 million. No tickets sold across the game’s footprint matched the numbers needed to claim the big bucks. There was a Match 5 Million winner sold in Colorado.

Texas Powerball players have a pretty good reason to wake up disappointed this morning. Our sources at the Texas Lottery in Austin tell us that just over 21,000 winning Powerball tickets were sold in Texas for last night’s drawing, but the biggest prize any Texas ticket could claim after the ping pong balls dropped was $200.

Here are the numbers we saw rolling out of the funnel for Powerball on December 16, 2024.

09 30 33 57 61 Powerball 17 Power Play x2

Confirm all tickets on Official Powerball website or that Official Texas Lottery website. These are the places of record when it comes to confirming prizes and winnings.

Now if you played Lotto Texas with extra! Monday evening you could be in possession of one of nine tickets sold in Texas that earned a prize of $11,062 as of last night. There were twenty-three other tickets that matched the scenario with the same number but did not play “Extra”, so their winnings are posted at $1,062.

Lotto Texas with extra! jackpot will finally be less than Powerball when they draw both games on Wednesday. Powerball is estimated to be $69 million. Lotto Texas with Extra is estimated to be $53.25 million.

But both of these jackpots pale in comparison Mega Millions. The multi-state lottery game is drawn tonight (Tuesday) at 10 p.m. The estimated annuitized jackpot is $740 million. And if you remember the last time a huge Mega Millions win happened, it happened in Texas on a ticket sold by the Texas Lottery.

Remember that lottery games involve a significant risk of losing money. If you can’t afford to lose money, don’t play. If you have a gambling problem, help is available free of charge by calling 1-800-GAMBLER. The call and the referral to counseling are free of charge for you. Good luck.