Five of The Worst Texas Scratch-Off Games To Play Right Now

The odds of winning the top payouts for any Texas Lottery scratch-off game are enormously slim. Those chances usually range anywhere from 1 in a million to 1 in 2.5 million. Those odds will fluctuate depending on the number of game tickets purchased compared to the number of top jackpots won.

The Texas Lottery website is updated daily with the latest data on its scratch-off games. A few quick entries and computations on the calculator can identify which games have the best or the worst odds of payouts for top money prizes. Let's take a look at 5 scratch-offs whose odds are now at 1 in 3 million, or worse, to win a big jackpot.

Double Sided Dollars

This $5 scratch-off features six top payouts of $100,000, five of which have already been claimed. The winning tickets were sold in  Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Levelland, and Sabinal. The odds of winning the remaining top prize are 1 in 3.4 million, as compared to 1 in 1.2 million when the game was first introduced.

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Jaws

This game was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of the blockbuster movie from 1975. This $5 game features four top payouts of $100,000, three of which have already been won (Port O'Connor, Tyler, Dallas). The odds of winning the final top prize are 1 in 2.96 million, as compared to 1 in 1.8 million when the game was first circulated.

50X

This is another $5 scratch-off, which features six top payouts of $200,000, four of which have been claimed (Forney, Amarillo(2), Blessing). The chances of winning either of the two remaining jackpots are 1 in 3.8 million, as compared to 1 in 2.34 million when the game was introduced.

$5,000 Blitz

It only costs a buck to play this game, but it has some very long odds of winning big. This scratch-off features six top prizes of $5,000, four of which have been won (Beaumont(2), Arlington, Houston). The current odds of winning either of the two remaining jackpots are 1 in 6.08 million, as compared to the original odds of 1 in 4.2 million.

Bingo Times 20

This $5 game features 8 top payouts of $100,000, seven of which have been claimed (Dallas(2), Rosenberg, Houston, Pinehurst, Brady, Hallsville). Your odds of winning that last jackpot are 1 in 5.1 million, as compared to 1 in 2.2 million when it was first circulated.