Texas resident claims part of $20 million Powerball grand prize
A Leander resident is celebrating a $4.5 million Powerball windfall after discovering days later that a ticket tucked away in a wallet had won a share of a $20 million jackpot.
A Texas resident claimed their share of a $20 million Powerball grand prize that they didn’t even know they had won for days after the drawing.
A Leander resident claimed half of the estimated annuitized $20 million Powerball® Grand Prize that was advertised for the May 2 drawing. The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold at QuikTrip #4165, located at 10742 E. Crystal Falls Parkway, in Leander, and matched all six numbers drawn (25-37-42-52-65, Powerball 14).
With a second jackpot-winning ticket sold in Florida for the same drawing, the two winners shared the Grand Prize. The Texas Lottery’s player, who elected to remain anonymous, selected the cash value option at the time of purchase and received $4,488,330.34 before taxes.
“I’m not a regular lottery player, but I saw on a billboard that there had recently been a big jackpot, so the next morning when I stopped in at QuikTrip for a coffee, I bought a Powerball ticket,” said the claimant. “A few days later we were out running errands when I noticed the ticket in my wallet and I thought to myself, ‘I need to check that so I can toss it’. Only, this time when I checked it, I saw that I’d won. I was stunned. When my [spouse] returned to the car [they] asked me, ‘Are you okay?’ and I told [them], ‘I think we’ve won the lottery.’”
The claimant 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.
“We’re planning to save the money for the time being until we decide what we want to do with it,” the winner said.
It was the fourth Powerball Grand Prize winner all-time by a Texas Lottery player and the first since September 2025 when Seven Bridges Revocable Trust, of Fredericksburg, claimed a share of a $1.8 billion jackpot prize. Additionally, the Texas Lottery has now had at least one Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot winner during each of the last four calendar years.
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