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Texas scratch-off statistics

75 active games · average odds 1 in 4.06 · 234 top prizes of $10,000+ unclaimed

Texas market snapshot

Pulled from our catalog on September 23, 2026. Averages cover every active game, not a sample.

Active games
75
Average overall odds
1 in 4.06
Best odds in state
1 in 3.21
Average prize payout
70.1%
share of sales returned as prizes
Top prizes unclaimed ($10,000+)
234
1 games have none left
Unclaimed top-prize money
$192.5M
floor, top tier of $10,000+ games
Average ValueScore
51.7
75 games scored
Launched in 90 days
19
0 ended

What Texas charges, and what you get for it

Higher-priced tickets almost always carry better overall odds and a higher payout rate, because the prize pool scales faster than the ticket price. This table is the state's own catalog, grouped by price.

PriceGamesShare of catalogAvg overall oddsAvg prize payoutAvg ValueScore
$1 tickets5
7%
1 in 4.0860.1%26.2
$2 tickets8
11%
1 in 4.6365.0%30.0
$3 tickets3
4%
1 in 4.2865.5%34.4
$5 tickets19
25%
1 in 4.0967.1%41.8
$10 tickets12
16%
1 in 4.1969.5%53.5
$20 tickets15
20%
1 in 4.0274.5%65.0
$30 tickets2
3%
1 in 3.5475.0%70.4
$50 tickets7
9%
1 in 3.4978.0%75.1
$100 tickets4
5%
1 in 3.6380.0%81.4

Texas lottery sales by fiscal year

Straight from the lottery's published annual reports. Per-resident figures divide instant sales by the state population from the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program (Vintage 2025) (30,188,424 residents), so they count every resident rather than only adults or only players.

Fiscal yearInstant salesTotal salesInstant sharePer residentTo the state
FY2025$6.43B$7.91B81.3%$213$1.78B
FY2024$6.64B$8.39B79.2%$220$1.98B
FY2023$6.73B$8.73B77.1%$223$2.13B
FY2022$6.73B$8.30B81.1%$223$1.97B
FY2021$6.62B$8.11B81.6%$219$1.97B
FY2020$5.56B$6.70B82.9%$184$1.66B
FY2019$4.85B$6.25B77.5%$161$1.62B

Instant-game sales moved +32.8% across FY2019-FY2025. That figure is nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and part of any increase reflects higher-priced tickets rather than more tickets sold.

Sources for this table

Texas runs a fiscal year ending August 31, unlike the June 30 year most states use. Scratch-ticket sales are published only in the lottery's year-end sales summary, which is marked unaudited; the audited statements break out no scratch line, so both documents are cited. The transfer column is the Foundation School Fund transfer alone, on an accrual basis. Texas also transfers smaller sums to veterans' assistance and two other accounts, so this is the education transfer rather than every transfer.

Texas sales by game, FY2025

Every product line the Texas lottery prints in its FY2025report, largest first within each group. Share is each line's part of the total across the lines shown here.

GameSalesShare
Scratch-offsScratch Tickets$6.43B81.3%
Multi-state draw gamesMega Millions$290.1M3.7%
Powerball$279.9M3.5%
Power Play$57.1M0.7%
Megaplier$38.6M0.5%
MM Just the Jackpot$579K0.0%
In-state draw gamesPick 3$258.6M3.3%
Lotto Texas$157.3M2.0%
Daily 4$129.2M1.6%
Texas Two Step$60.1M0.8%
Lotto Extra$54.3M0.7%
Cash Five$48.7M0.6%
All or Nothing$44.9M0.6%
Pick 3 Fireball$30.2M0.4%
Daily 4 Fireball$28.2M0.4%
Total of lines shown$7.91B100%
Source

Base game only; Texas prints Megaplier and Just the Jackpot on their own lines.

Base game only; Texas prints Power Play on its own line.

How fast Texas top prizes get claimed

We snapshot every game's remaining prize counts daily, so we can show depletion rather than just the current number. This counts the drop in top prizes remaining each month across 74 tracked games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, 154 claimed in total over the window. No other site publishes this.

Mar 202620
Apr 202625
May 202625
Jun 202619
Jul 202631
Aug 202619
Sep 202615

Top prizes claimed per month. A game that launched mid-window only contributes claims recorded after its first snapshot, so its opening month reads low.

ValueScore spread across Texas

Our ValueScore™ rates each game 0-100 on expected value, prize quality, win frequency and remaining inventory. Scores are ranked within the state, so a 60 in Texas means good relative to what else is on the shelf here.

Strong (60+)
25
33% of scored games
Fair (40-59)
25
33%
Weak (under 40)
25
33%

See the ranked list on the Texas ValueScore ranking, or compare against other states on the national stats page.

Common questions

How many scratch-off games does Texas have?

Texas currently has 75 active scratch-off games across 9 price points, from $1 to $100. 19 launched in the last 90 days.

What are the average odds on a Texas scratch-off?

Across all 75 active games the average published overall odds are 1 in 4.06. The single best game right now is 1 in 3.21. Overall odds count every prize tier, including prizes equal to the ticket price.

How much unclaimed top-prize money is left in Texas?

At least $192.5M in top prizes is still unclaimed across Texas's active games, covering 234 individual top prizes. Treat that as a floor. We count only games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, only games whose lottery publishes a remaining count, and only the top tier of each game.

How much does Texas sell in scratch-off tickets?

Texas reported $6.4B in instant-game sales in FY2025, which is 81.3% of all lottery sales. That works out to $213 per resident. Figures come from Texas Lottery FY2025 Annual Financial Report (year ended August 31, 2025).

How these numbers are built
Game counts, odds, payout rates and remaining prizes come from the Texaslottery's own game pages, re-scraped daily. Top-prize figures count only games whose top prize is $10,000 or more: a game topping out at $100 can print hundreds of thousands of them, which would swamp every real jackpot in the total. Monthly claim counts come from our snapshot archive, which starts in March 2026. Sales figures are typed in by hand from annual reports and each row links the document it came from. Where a lottery does not publish a figure we show a dash rather than filling the gap, which is why some columns are sparse for some states.