Texas Lottery: Leander player wins half of Powerball jackpot
Powerball tickets are sold in most U.S. states. A Leander resident won half of the $20 million grand prize in the May 2 drawing.
A Leander resident won half of a $20 million Powerball jackpot in a May 2 drawing, according to a news release from the Texas Lottery on Wednesday.
The resident, who chose to remain anonymous, selected the cash value option at the time of purchase and received $4.48 million before taxes, the release said. The player bought the Quick Pick ticket at QuikTrip at 10742 E. Crystal Falls Parkway in Leander. The winning numbers were 25, 37, 42, 52 and 65, with Powerball 14. The winner of the other half of the grand prize bought a ticket in Florida, the release said.
Powerball tickets cost $2. They are sold in 45 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The winner from Leander said they were not a regular lottery player but bought a ticket after seeing on a billboard that there had recently been a big jackpot, the release said. It said the winner decided to check the ticket a few days later and found out the ticket had won.
“I was stunned,” the winner said in the release. “When my (spouse) returned to the car, (they) asked me, ‘Are you OK?’ and I told (them), ‘I think we’ve won the lottery.’”
The winner said their spouse thought they were overreacting, but the couple checked the numbers three more times and then placed the ticket in a safe when they got home, the release said. “We’re planning to save the money for the time being until we decide what we want to do with it,” said the winner.
The convenience store where the ticket was sold may be eligible to receive a $250,000 retailer bonus for selling the jackpot-winning ticket under the Texas Lottery’s Retailer Bonus Program.
The Leander winner was the fourth Texas Lottery player to be a Powerball grand prize winner and the first since September 2025, when Seven Bridges Revocable Trust of Fredericksburg claimed a share of a $1.8 billion jackpot prize, the release said.
It said Texas joined the multijurisdictional Powerball game in 2010 and had its first Powerball jackpot winner in 2013, when Paul McDowell of Bells claimed the $40 million jackpot from the May 29, 2013, drawing.
The winning Powerball jackpot on May 2 came just one drawing after the previous Powerball jackpot was won in the April 29 drawing, when two tickets sold outside of Texas shared the $143 million jackpot prize.
Drawings are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Players pick five numbers from a field of 69 numbers and one Powerball number from a field of 26 numbers. After someone wins the grand prize, it resets to $20 million.
The estimated amount of the Powerball grand prize jackpot was $154 million on Wednesday.
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