Cowboys costs $5 a ticket from the Texas Lottery. By our estimate the $100,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,961,101 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,477,424. On average it pays back about $0.60 per $1, $0.08 less than the median $5 game in Texas. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.80 beat the 1 in 4.14 typical of Texas's $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.5M at launch, about 1 in 2.0M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $100,000 prizes have been claimed.
- At 1 in 3.80 overall odds, prizes land more often than in most games.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 1 in 2,430,000 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 810,000 | 12 | 9 | 75% |
| $500 | 1 in 36,000 | 280 | 223 | 80% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,500 | 6,632 | 5,168 | 78% |
| $50 | 1 in 144 | 68,821 | 53,826 | 78% |
| $20 | 1 in 25 | 396,370 | 311,885 | 79% |
| $15 | 1 in 25 | 396,330 | 312,157 | 79% |
| $10 | 1 in 20 | 506,378 | 399,801 | 79% |
| $5 | 1 in 8 | 1,232,988 | 981,244 | 80% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $100,000 top prizes left at launch on August 18 are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 2.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, faster than the average for Texas's $5 games (1.4% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- Texas
- Game Number
- 2754
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 8/17/2026
- Payout %
- 60.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Texas
All 19 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money Multiplier | 61 | 1 in 4.27 | 68.0% | $100K · 5 | - |
| Super Loteria | 61 | 1 in 3.77 | 68.0% | $100K · 27 | 1.0% |
| Lucky 7 | 54 | 1 in 4.23 | 68.0% | $200K · 4 | 4.0% |
| Super Crossword | 54 | 1 in 4.07 | 68.1% | $100K · 6 | 1.7% |
| Cowboys (this game) | 52 | 1 in 3.80 | 60.2% | $100K · 4 | 2.3% |
| Sugar Skull Cash | 48 | 1 in 3.99 | 68.0% | $100K · 2 | 7.5% |
| Houston Texans | 48 | 1 in 3.77 | 64.6% | $100K · 2 | 3.2% |
| Airstream® Dream | 40 | 1 in 4.28 | 67.5% | $100K · 2 | 1.4% |
| $100,000 Cash | 40 | 1 in 4.07 | 68.1% | $100K · 4 | 0.7% |
| Bonus Break the Bank | 37 | 1 in 4.28 | 68.0% | $100K · 5 | 0.6% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.