If you played Powerball when the jackpot grew to more than $1.5 billion dollars, you helped the Texas Lottery generate more than $266 million dollars.
Lottery officials say $106 million will go to the Texas Foundation School Fund, another $49 million in prizes to players, and $13 million in commissions to retailers who sold the tickets.
While no one from Texas won the big jackpot, more than 2.7 million tickets were sold where winners received a cash prize ranging from $4.00 to $2 million dollars.
Additional information from the Texas Lottery Commission:
Record sales for the roll up to the Jan. 13 Powerball drawing for a $1,586,400,000 jackpot, the largest lottery jackpot in world history, generated $266.7 million in sales in Texas, resulting in $106.7 million for Texas’ Foundation School Fund.
“While there was no jackpot winner in Texas for last week’s world record Powerball drawing, Texas public schools were big winners,” said Gary Grief, chair of the Powerball game and executive director of the Texas Lottery.
National sales for the Powerball jackpot created a windfall of funding for important causes supported by state lotteries across the country. Total national Powerball draw sales for the roll cycle from Nov. 5 to Jan. 13 were $3.358 billion resulting in $1.3 billion in revenue for causes including college scholarships, education, veterans, senior citizens and the environment.
Texas Powerball players and our lottery retailers also benefited from historic sales. Powerball sales from Nov. 5 to Jan. 13 culminated in $49 million in prizes to players and $13 million in retailer commissions. For the Jan. 13 drawing, nationally, there were 26,110,643 non-jackpot prizewinning tickets sold and Texas sold 2,289,864 non-jackpot prizewinning tickets for the Jan. 13 drawing.
“Last fiscal year the Texas Lottery generated record revenue for the state and with sales from this world record jackpot, we are already positioned to break last year’s record,” said Grief.
Jackpot winning tickets for the Jan. 13 drawing were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee.
The jackpot’s final cash value was $983,505,233 and the winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.
Texas saw its best hour of Powerball sales in the lottery’s 24 year history on Jan. 13 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. with $8.6 million in sales.
Four lucky Texans missed winning the Jan. 13 jackpot by one number but matched five of the six numbers drawn winning second-tier prizes of $1 million or $2 million.
The Jan. 13 jackpot started at $40 million on Nov. 7, 2015, and was the result of 19 drawings with no jackpot winner.
Powerball sales from Jan. 10 to Jan. 13 were $109.1 million, a new record in Texas beating the $70.5 million in sales for the previous Powerball drawing. Texas sales represented 8.6 percent of total Powerball sales for the drawing.
Texas has had two Powerball jackpot winners since joining the multistate Powerball game in 2010.
Texas has had 23 second-tier Powerball winners of $1 million or $2 million since January 2015.
