If You Can Find This $5 Scratch-Off, Here's Why You Should Buy It

Officials with the Texas Lottery have confirmed that they will soon close the '$100,000 Richer' scratch-off game. Each ticket costs $5, and the game features 4 top prizes of $100,000. When lottery officials announce that they are about to close a certain game, it can be a little difficult to find these tickets, since some stores have begun returning game pieces to the Texas Lottery.

Why You Should Buy This Scratch-Off Ticket

When the $100,000 Richer game went into circulation in July 2025, the odds of winning one of the four top prizes were 1 in 1,770,000. As of now, approximately 70% of this game's tickets have been purchased, and only 1 of the $100,000 jackpots has been claimed. Some quick math tells us that when you buy one of the game tickets now, the odds of winning one of the remaining 3 jackpots are approximately 1 in 710,000**. Okay, so those odds are still somewhat bleak, but it does represent a 150% increase in your favor.

The asterisks indicate the approximate odds for the total number of game pieces that have not been purchased. Many stores have started returning the game tickets to the Texas Lottery warehouse. The odds of winning do not necessarily reflect the actual number of active game pieces still in play.

Powerball and Mega Millions Jackpots Continue To Grow

The odds of winning the jackpot of either of these two games are much worse, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 in 300,000,000. But, just in case you want to give it a go, the Powerball jackpot is now $126 million, while the Mega Millions top prize has reached $385 million.