Denton resident claims $1 million Texas scratch-off prize, leaving one top prize on a game Texas has already replaced

A Denton resident has claimed a $1 million top prize on the Texas Lottery scratch ticket game Million Dollar Loteria, the lottery said Tuesday. The ticket was bought at Chilly Mart at 3912 Teasley Lane in Denton, and the store may be eligible for a $10,000 bonus under the lottery's retailer bonus program. The claimant elected to remain anonymous.

Texas is one of the states where that choice exists. House Bill 59, passed in 2017 and applying to claims made on or after January 1, 2018, lets winners of $1 million or more keep their name and address out of public records. It has to be requested on the claim form, and a winner who takes the prize as annuity payments is only shielded until the 30th day after claiming. We went through which states allow it in can you remain anonymous after winning a lottery prize.

This was the ninth of ten $1 million top prizes to be claimed in the game, which leaves exactly one $1 million prize left. That matters more than a press release usually lets on, because there are two versions of Million Dollar Loteria sitting on Texas racks right now and they are in completely different condition.

The one this ticket came from is game number 2653, which went on sale July 21, 2025. Our data has it about 86% of the ticket inventory sold with a single $1 million prize left, 13 of its 40 prizes at $20,000, and 46 of its 328 at $5,000. It rates 59.9 on our ValueScore™.

Two days before this claim was announced, Texas launched a new edition of the same game on sale, game number 2764. It is the same $20 ticket with the same 1 in 3.29 overall odds and the same 75% payout percentage, and all ten of its $1 million prizes are unclaimed, along with all 43 of its $20,000 prizes and all 343 at $5,000. It rates 90.6, second among the 78 active Texas games we score.

So the two tickets look identical on the shelf and are worth roughly 30 points of ValueScore™ apart. A player who wants the older one is buying into the last 14% of a print run with one big prize left in it.

On the money itself, Texas has no state income tax, so a $1 million prize loses nothing at the state level. Federal withholding takes 24%, or $240,000, leaving $760,000 at the claim, and the rest of the federal bill arrives at tax time because $1 million falls in the 37% bracket. That works out to roughly $630,000 kept, and our lottery tax calculator and how lottery winnings are taxed handle the details.

Million Dollar Loteria offers more than $363.5 million in total prizes. The Texas Lottery has generated more than $43 billion for the state since its first ticket in 1992 and paid out more than $98 billion in prizes, including more than $37 billion to the Foundation School Fund since 1997.

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Texas Lottery: Denton resident claims $1 million scratch ticket prize

16 Texas Administrative Code 401.324: prize winner election to remain anonymous