Texas launched 4 new scratch-offs, including a $100 game with one of the highest scores in the nation

Texas just launched four new scratch-offs for sale on August 3. ValueScore™ figures, our 0 to 100 rating, are current as of launch below.

Premier Winnings ($100)

Premier Winnings is the story of this launch. The $100 ticket debuts at 95.6, which is the ninth-highest score of any active scratch-off in the country and the second-highest among the six $100 games sold nationwide, behind only Oklahoma's $5 Million Jackpot at 98.9. It carries a $10,000,000 top prize with all four unclaimed, an 80.2% payout percentage and overall odds of 1 in 3.49.

Texas now sells five of the six $100 scratch-offs in America, and this is comfortably the state's best. We ranked the whole tier in our look at the most expensive scratch-offs in the country, where the previous Texas leader sat at 83.1.

$100, $200, $500 or $1,000! ($20)

$100, $200, $500 or $1,000! costs $20 and pays exactly the four amounts in its name and nothing else. It rates 68.1 with a 75% payout percentage, and 2,974 of its $1,000 top prizes are unclaimed. The odds of 1 in 9.49 are long because there are no small prizes in the game at all: every ninth to tenth ticket or so wins at least $100.

$50, $100 or $500! ($10)

$50, $100 or $500! works the same way at half the price at $10, paying only $50, $100 or $500. It rates 61.6 with a 70% payout percentage, odds of 1 in 9.43, and 10,176 top prizes of $500 still out there.

3-2-Won! ($1)

3-2-Won! is the $1 entry, with a $500 top prize, 40 of them unclaimed, odds of 1 in 4.68 and a 60.1% payout percentage. It rates 42.1, which is about normal for a dollar game.

Which one to buy

Premier Winnings, if the price fits your budget, and it is not close. A 95.6 with every top prize on the board is the kind of debut we see a few times a year.

The two fixed-prize games suit a specific taste: no lottery-sized dream, but every win is at least $50 or $100 rather than a free ticket. Between them, the $20 version returns five points more of what it takes in. All four are on our Texas ValueScore rankings alongside the rest of the state.