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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Even if you don’t win the jackpot, there’s still a lot of money up for grabs in the lottery.
In fact, more than 2,100 Texans have become overnight millionaires by purchasing a ticket.
A total of 2,123 players have won more than $1 million, and 233 have won more than $10 million, according to data from the Texas Lottery Commission.
Meanwhile, six lucky players have won at least $100 million.
Here’s a look at the 10 largest lottery wins in state history:
The top 10 all won more than $60 million. The largest lottery prize ever in Texas was more than $400 million, paid out to a lottery trust in Sugar Land on Oct. 1, 2024. In second place, a ticket worth $360 million was claimed by a lottery trust in South Dakota in November 2023. The winner chose the cash value option, meaning they took home almost $157.4 million, before taxes.
An anonymous resident in Leander purchased a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $227 million for a drawing in September 2019. They also opted for the cash value option, taking home $157 million.
A winning ticket for the $1.8 billion Powerball ticket was sold in Fredericksburg in September 2025, sharing the prize with another winning ticket in Missouri. The winner in Texas has not yet claimed their prize, so that winning is not reflected in the charts above.
The largest lottery prize in U.S. history, $2.04 billion, was won in California in a November 2022 Powerball drawing. That’s about five times more than the largest prize ever claimed in Texas.
Since 1992, people from 38 states have won at least $100,000 in the Texas Lottery, including more than 7,500 people from Texas itself.
Outside the Lone Star State, Oklahoma has the most winners, 24, while Louisiana and New Mexico have 16 winners each. Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and California all have more than 10 people who have won at least $100,000 in the Texas Lottery.
Outside of the U.S., people in four countries have won at least $100,000. Mexico has 12 Texas Lottery winners above that dollar amount, while Canada has two. China and the Netherlands both have one winner above $100,000.
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