Texas Powerball Wins Confirmed by Texas Lottery Wednesday

I would imagine the bookkeeper at the Texas Lottery offices in Austin has had their hands full these past few days. The Texas Lottery has been posting about big wins in Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, San Antonio, and other Texas cities and I bet the bookkeeping department at the lottery offices has been writing a lot of checks and going over balance sheets.

Now, I don't think anybody at the Texas Lottery minds sharing the wealth with the good people of the Lone Star State, after all, it is your money and here lately a lot of you have been spending a little and getting a lot.

Wednesday's Powerball game is no exception. Powerball has confirmed there were some big money wins from Texas tickets in the May 22, 2024 drawing. Here is how that looked.

The estimated top prize for Wednesday's Powerball drawing was $101.7 million. The numbers drawn last night were:

05   16   18   26   67   Powerball 04   Power Play  x3

Use those numbers for reference but do verify your ticket at the Official Powerball Website or the Official Texas Lottery Website. You can also find out exactly how much those winning tickets will pay and where you need to take them to claim your money.

Our sources at Powerball say no ticket was sold that matched the numbers needed to claim the $101.7 million top prize Wednesday. A California-sold ticket Matched 5, so that ticket is worth $1 million.  Meanwhile, the Texas Lottery has confirmed that two tickets sold in the state earned prizes of more than $10,000 in last night's game.

Each of the big-money winners matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball. That prize is $50,000 which is what one of the Texas winners can lay claim to. The other ticket matched the same, four of five with the Powerball, but that ticket purchaser opted to participate in the Power Play option. So their winnings are three times the actual prize or $150,000.

Your next opportunity to become an instant millionaire will come Friday night with the Mega Millions game. That multi-state lottery boasts a jackpot of $453 million. The next Mega Millions drawing will be at 9:59 on Friday evening.