Ticket for half of $20M Lotto Texas jackpot sold at Texas QuikTrip store

A Central Texas resident is now a multi-millionaire after recently claiming their pot of gold in a Texas Lottery jackpot earlier this month. In Leander, a city about 27 miles north of Austin, a resident claimed half of an estimated annuitized $20 million Powerball Grand Prize in a May 2 drawing, according to a release.

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). A second jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Florida for the same drawing, with two winners sharing the Grand Prize.

The Texas Lottery player, who elected to remain anonymous, chose to be paid in cash at the time of purchase and received $4,488,330.34 before taxes. This winning Powerball jackpot 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.

“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,” the Leander claimant said in a release. “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 lucky player explained 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. They later added that the couple is planning to “save the money for the time being until we decide what we want to do with it.”

The Leander QuikTrip 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. It was the fourth Powerball Grand Prize winner all-time by a Texas Lottery player and the first since September 2025 when a Fredericksburg trust claimed a share of a $1.8 billion jackpot prize. 

The Texas Lottery has now had at least one Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot winner during each of the last four calendar years. Texas joined the multijurisdictional Powerball game in 2010 and had its first Powerball jackpot winner in 2013, per a release.

Drawings are broadcast each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:12 p.m. Texas Lottery players can purchase Powerball tickets at more than 19,000 Texas Lottery retailers across the state. Ticket sales close at 9 p.m. on drawing nights.