Texas Lottery: Games, Results, the 2025 Shake-Up and Why You Can't Buy Online

The Texas Lottery has sold tickets since 1992 and is one of the biggest lotteries in the country by sales — and since 2025 it is also the most changed. A scandal over bulk ticket buying and courier apps led the legislature to abolish the Texas Lottery Commission: since September 1, 2025 the lottery has been run by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) under Senate Bill 3070, which also wrote a ban on lottery courier services into state law. The practical upshot for players is simple and unusual: in Texas, a lottery ticket is a retail purchase only. There is no legal way to buy one online.

Texas Lottery draw games

Game	Price per play	Drawings
Powerball	$2 (Power Play +$1, Double Play +$1)	Mon, Wed, Sat · 10:12 pm CT
Mega Millions	$5 (multiplier included)	Tue, Fri · 10:00 pm CT
Lotto Texas	$1	Mon, Wed, Sat
Texas Two Step	$1	Mon, Thu
Cash Five	$1	Mon-Sat nightly
Pick 3 / Daily 4	from $0.50	Four times daily, Mon-Sat
All or Nothing	$2	Four times daily, Mon-Sat

Lotto Texas is the state flagship — a pick-6 jackpot game running since 1992 whose jackpots regularly reach eight figures. Texas Two Step is the home-grown favorite behind the search box: a 4-of-35 plus bonus-ball game with a $200,000 rolling minimum jackpot, drawn Monday and Thursday. All or Nothing pays its $250,000 top prize for matching all twelve numbers or none of them — a structure unique to a handful of states. Note the four-draws-a-day schedule on the daily games and the absence of Sunday drawings for state games: both are Texas signatures.

Can you buy Texas Lottery tickets online? No — here is why

Texas never ran an official online platform, and for years the gap was filled by courier apps — Jackpocket, theLotter Texas, Lotto.com — which bought retail tickets on customers' behalf. That era ended in 2025. After a $95 million jackpot won through a courier and a separate 2023 bulk-buy of virtually every combination drew investigations, the commission moved to ban couriers in April 2025 (Jackpocket and theLotter suspended Texas operations immediately), and SB 3070 then made the ban statutory, alongside a 100-ticket-per-purchase cap. Buying in person at a licensed retailer is now the only legal route. The official Texas Lottery app remains available, but it is a checker and scanner — it cannot sell you a ticket.

Who runs the Texas Lottery now?

The Texas Lottery Commission no longer exists. SB 3070, signed in June 2025, abolished it and transferred the lottery and charitable bingo to TDLR on September 1, 2025, with a new advisory committee, a mandated security office and an annual state audit. The law also put the lottery itself on probation: it sunsets on September 1, 2029 unless the legislature votes to continue it. Texas is the only major US lottery operating under an explicit expiry date.

Texas Lottery results and winning numbers

Winning numbers for Lotto Texas, Texas Two Step, Cash Five, Pick 3, Daily 4 and All or Nothing are published on texaslottery.com after every drawing, and that is the authoritative source for the state games — we do not republish daily numbers we cannot verify against a feed. For the multi-state games we keep our own complete archives: every Powerball drawing with prize breakdowns, and every Mega Millions drawing likewise.

No state tax on Texas Lottery winnings

Texas has no state income tax, so the state takes nothing from a lottery prize — only the federal side applies: 24% federal withholding on prizes above $5,000, with prizes over $600 reported. On identical jackpots, a Texas winner keeps several percentage points more than a winner in a withholding state like Georgia (4.99%) or Virginia (4%). Lottery proceeds fund the Foundation School Fund for public education and veterans' programs. See the zero-tax difference in our lottery tax calculator.

How Texas compares with other states

Texas now anchors the restrictive end of the US map, alongside California, where online sales are also off the table. At the other end, Virginia and Georgia both sell draw games through official state platforms. The full comparison of who sells what, and every legal purchase route, is in our guides to the US lottery system and buying Powerball tickets online.