After 300 Drawings, Somebody Finally Won This Texas Lottery Game

On January 16, 2025, somebody won the $250,000 top prize in the Texas Lottery's All or Nothing game. Since then, there have been over 300 drawings for that game, and no jackpot winner...

...until Thursday, April 16.

How To Play All or Nothing

Twenty-four balls are in play, numbered from 1 through 24. For a $2 ticket, you choose 12 numbers. If your selected numbers match ALL 12 randomly drawn numbers, you win $250,000.

Likewise, if you DON'T MATCH ANY of the Twelve numbers, you also win $250,000. If you match a total of 5, 6, or 7 numbers, you don't win anything. Otherwise, there are non-jackpot payouts ranging from $2 - $500.

The odds of winning either top prize are about 1 in 2.7 million.

Finally, A Winner

Every day, except for Sunday, there are 4 All or Nothing drawings (morning-day-evening-night), that's 24 drawings every week.

Three months passed with no jackpot winner; that's more than 300 drawings since the last top prize winner. Then, on the evening drawing of April 16, a ticket matching all 12 numbers was sold at this Zip In Zip Out store on the South Sam Houston Tollway in Houston.

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Sometimes, people who play All or Nothing will play two separate cards, choosing the opposite numbers on both cards. If they match all 12 on one card, they will not match any on the other card, doubling their winnings to $500,000.

This happened on September 14, 2024, when a single player won on two separate tickets in Kilgore, Texas. One card matched all 12 numbers, while the other didn't match any.