Premier Winnings costs $100 and prints four top prizes of $10 million at odds of 1 in 2,250,000. The game’s prize table pays out about 80 cents of every dollar if all 9.2 million tickets sell. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.49, and the smallest prize is $150. The game procedures … Read more
A summons in the criminal case against the abolished Texas Lottery Commission went to the agency that now runs the lottery. The commission and former executive director Gary Grief each face a first-degree felony charge of abuse of official capacity. The charge traces to an April 2023 Lotto Texas drawing whose $95 million top prize … Read more
Texas would double the cash a licensed bingo organization may hold, from $50,000 to $100,000. The limit would be calculated from eight quarterly reports instead of three, matching the two-year license term. The rules reach 2,093 bingo license holders, 1,766 of them nonprofits, and carry no fee increases. Comments close 30 days after the July … Read more
Texas lottery education funding is a small slice of the school budget, not the windfall the myth promises. See where the money goes and who really pays.