Census Bureau data - so there are not as many chances for people to come up with a winning ticket.īexar County residents have hit on 21,967 Texas Lottery tickets since 1992, with 24 residents winning $1 million or more. These counties have smaller populations - Loving County alone has 83 residents, according to 2021 U.S. This includes Borden, Kenedy and Loving Counties. Nine counties have never had a winner report that they lived there.
Of the 823 winning tickets that meet this threshold, 135 kept their identities a secret. The Texas Lottery Commission says that those who win $1 million or more can choose to suppress their identities from being shared. Some winners chose to remain anonymous after receiving their prize. READ MORE: San Antonio companies you should have invested in a decade ago The winners represented for each county are based on where they reported living at the time, not necessarily where they bought the ticket. The Express-News mapped out the biggest winners from every Texas county over the last 31 years using this data. Note that prize amounts in this story have not been adjusted for inflation. The data features every winner of the Texas Lottery going back to the very first winners in 1992, including Janie Kallus of Schulenburg, Texas, who became the first winner of the Lotto Texas jackpot in November of that year. Since the store that sells the winning ticket gets 5%, Nettles says the operators of Hooked on MT received $548,000 from the drawing.This is according to data from the Texas Lottery Commission's lottery winner database. "I don't know how he could have any customers coming in to buy because he doesn't have a lottery sign, who knows if he's selling lottery products?" Nettles said. Our app, Mido Lotto, and the app offerings of other couriers, only benefit Texan consumers and Lottery beneficiaries, and we strongly opposed any moves to prohibit the model." "For this drawing, the winner was a retail customer in our store and was not a customer of our courier app, Mido Lotto.
In a statement, the management also defended the use of apps, saying: The operators of Hooked on MT, where the winning ticket was sold, said that all 11 million tickets were sold in person to customers at the Colleyville location, which was closed both afternoons we drove by. Legal and policy issues related to courier service are for the Texas Legislature to determine." ".the lottery courier business model is not contemplated by current Texas law and is now being examined closely by the Texas Legislature. In a statement, the commission told CBS News Texas says tickets are supposed to be sold at established retail businesses and: In fact, it appears that the winning ticket was likely bought by one of the purchasing groups." ".the vast majority of the buying activity focused at those retailers who appeared to be selling to various purchasing groups. The Texas Lottery Commission even suggested Saturday night's winner was a syndicate, saying in a news release: The only way that can happen is if somebody buys up all the combinations." "That tells you that 99.4% of all combinations were sold that night, the only way they can do that, coverage is normally 4%. "The Texas lottery has confirmed that the coverage was 99.4%," Nettles said.
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