New Texas Lottery Game Is Already Paying Out Jackpots Like Crazy

When I first read the details of Colossal Cash, one of the newest Texas Lottery scratch-off games, I thought there was a misprint. This game features FIFTY top cash prizes of $50,000.

I'm not a certified Texas Lottery historian, but I don't recall ever seeing that many top prizes when it comes to top payouts of $5K or more. Take a look at the rundown of current games, and you'll notice that the number of top prizes for any game is usually between 4-10, a few may be a little higher with some of the Loteria games featuring 20 or 25 top jackpots.

Check Out These Crazy Odds of Winning

The usual odds of winning the top prize of a Texas Lottery scratch-off game usually range between 1 in 1.5 million and 1 in 2.5 million. My first thought was that game officials were probably flooding the market with tens of millions of these game cards to keep those odds.

Nope.

Your odds of winning a $50K jackpot with Colossal Cash is 1 in 120,000. Yes, that's still somewhere between slim and none, but compared with Winter Words which features 5 top prizes of $50,000, your odds of winning a jackpot with Colossal Cash are 1,000% higher. (odds of winning new game/odds of winning previous game X 100)

Four Winners in Five Days

The game was introduced on February 17 and in its first week of circulation there have already been four - $50,000 winners.

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Is There An Underlying Catch?

Not really, this game is just structured a bit differently. Most Texas Lottery scratch-off games that feature a jackpot of $50,000 cost around $3 to play. Colossal Cash is a $20 ticket, allowing the game to have more top prizes and better odds.