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Texas Lottery Commission abolished, oversight of Texas Lottery transferredReply
ok wait a minute. if i'm physically located in texas and i text my buddy chad (also physically located in texas) on my mobile phone to ask him to pick me up a lottery ticket while he's out running errands or whatever, and then he gives me the ticket and i pay him back a couple bucks, does that mean one or both of us has broken texas law??
Jun 23, 2025, 9:55 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

$83.5 million Lotto Texas winner reveals name in court battle: "Tired of being ignored"News Story
Texas Lottery refuses to acknowledge ticket holder as official jackpot winner By Kate Northrop The woman who sued the Texas Lottery for withholding an $83.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot payout while keeping her identity anonymous has publicly revealed her name in testimony as part of her ongoing battle to receive the winnings. A Houston-area lottery player publicized her identity in a bid to draw more attention to her ongoing legal battle against the Texas Lottery for an $83.5 million
Jun 11, 2025, 3:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery Commission abolished, oversight of Texas Lottery transferredReply
I just do not understand if the Texas lottery has even an entry level attorney on staff or retains an outside law firm. Assuming they do not want to prevent someone picking up a ticket for a friend (and the way it is written, they do seem to want to ban any third party purchases), they could have easily clarified this issue with a written policy. While the Texas lottery does not intend to ban the infrequent and minimal personal purchases of lottery tickets by third party Texas residents for
Jun 24, 2025, 1:23 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

$83.5 million Lotto Texas winner reveals name in court battle: "Tired of being ignored"Reply
No, the problem started in 2023 when the Rook TX group purchased all lottery combinations for $25M through courier service Jackpocket or something similar and won $95M. No one thought anything of it at the time. Then in 2025 a women won $85M in Texas using courier service Jackpot. Someone then said, wait a minutes there must be something going wrong with courier services in Texas. We have to put a stop to this and deny this woman her money because she must be in kahoots with the courier service.
Jun 14, 2025, 6:36 am - winterhug - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
Congratulations to the Arizona Lottery for instituting this rule. This is exactly what we have been advocating for the past year, when the situation in Texas starting cropping up, and officials there wrongly blamed courier services. We strongly advocated for a bulk ticket limit to solve all these issues back in October of 2024: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/352288 Instead of doing that, the Texas Lottery doubled down on wrongly blaming couriers and banned them . The predictable resul
Jul 7, 2025, 8:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?News Story
Now the 4th-largest jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Will someone give a Christmas gift worth billions this week? It's actually a possibility, as the next Powerball drawing on Christmas Eve is set to deliver a faint-inducing prize worth $1.7 billion. The Powerball jackpot has been building for a record 46 consecutive drawings since the last winner on Sept. 6, 2025 , when two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas split a $1.7874 billion jackpot after 41 draws without a winne
Dec 23, 2025, 12:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas resident wins $100,000 on surprise Arkansas Lottery ticket from husbandNews Story
There was a lot of screaming! By Kate Northrop A Texas resident was screaming all the way through her celebration when she discovered that the surprise Arkansas Lottery ticket from her husband netted them a $100,000 prize. A thoughtful gift ended up bringing a Texas woman to Arkansas to claim a $100,000 prize from one of the state's scratch-off tickets. T. Edgerson of Collin County, Texas, welcomed her husband home from his job. He works as a truck driver and likes buying his wi
Feb 27, 2026, 9:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Former Texas Lottery Director Gary Grief indicted on charge related to $95M Lotto Texas jackpotReply
* Texas is indictment country. Didn't they indict their own Attorney General awhile ago?
May 18, 2026, 3:34 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

Powerball drawing produces huge number of big winners, including two who split the jackpotReply
This is very interesting. No 2nd prize winners from Texas? What's up with this?
Apr 30, 2026, 3:50 pm - justAndy1970 - Lottery News

Texas trust claims second half $1.8 billion Powerball lottery jackpotReply
As they say everything big happens in Texas. congratulations to the big winner
Oct 14, 2025, 10:05 am - welington - Lottery News