- 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 direct $10 million claims to the headquarters of a commission abolished in 2025.
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Lottery began selling Premier Winnings on Aug. 3, a $100 scratch ticket that returns about 80 cents of every dollar across its full print run and carries four top prizes of $10 million.
What The Ticket Pays Back
The lottery’s game details for Premier Winnings list more than $735.3 million in total prizes across approximately 9,179,475 tickets. At $100 each, a complete sell-through would produce about $918 million in sales, putting the prize pool at roughly 80% of what the game takes in.
That figure describes the game, not a ticket. A payout percentage is what an entire print run returns in aggregate, and it is not the chance that any single $100 purchase returns anything at all. The remaining share covers retailer commissions, game costs and administration, and statute directs the state’s cut of lottery proceeds to the Foundation School Fund.
Eight Prize Levels, None Below The Ticket Price
Premier Winnings pays at eight levels, and the smallest of them is $150, so any winning ticket returns at least half again what it cost. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.49. The game procedures set the approximate odds at each level.
| Prize | Approximate odds |
|---|---|
| $10,000,000 | 1 in 2,250,000 |
| $100,000 | 1 in 360,000 |
| $10,000 | 1 in 60,000 |
| $1,000 | 1 in 358.21 |
| $500 | 1 in 20 |
| $300 | 1 in 20 |
| $200 | 1 in 10 |
| $150 | 1 in 12 |
The four $10 million prizes and the 25 prizes of $100,000 account for $42.5 million of the pool. Almost all of the remaining money is spread across the bottom four tiers, where roughly 2.6 million tickets pay between $150 and $500.
The Largest Top Prize Still On The Board
Premier Winnings carries the largest unclaimed scratch top prize on the Texas Lottery’s board. The $20 Million Supreme game, also priced at $100 and on sale since May 2022, has awarded all four of its $20 million top prizes and is flagged as closing soon. Texas sells four other $100 scratch games, and the largest top prize still unclaimed among them is $7.5 million.
Rules That Still Name An Abolished Commission
A $10 million winner must present the ticket at “Texas Lottery Commission headquarters in Austin,” the game procedures state, and the same document reserves any change in the size of the print run to “the sole discretion of the Texas Lottery Commission.” Texas abolished the commission in 2025 and moved its duties to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on Sept. 1 of that year. Texaslottery.com now carries a TDLR copyright line.
The licensing department inherited the former commission’s criminal exposure as well. A summons in the felony abuse-of-official-capacity case was served on TDLR’s executive director in July, in the prosecution that left the Texas Lottery Commission charged over a $95 million jackpot.
Why The Lottery Carries The State’s Legal Play
Texas licenses no commercial casinos and no sportsbooks. Its regulated menu runs to three items, the lottery, pari-mutuel horse racing and charitable bingo, with tribal venues answering to federal law rather than the state. That leaves draw games and scratch tickets carrying most of what is legally on sale at Texas gambling sites.
The 2025 law that moved the lottery to TDLR also banned courier services and ended Texas Lottery online ticket buying, so a $100 ticket has to be bought in person at a licensed retailer.
When The Game Ends
The lottery’s executive director may announce a closing date for Premier Winnings at any time without advance notice, and closing procedures begin once all top prizes have been claimed. Tickets may keep selling during that period, and prizes must be claimed within 180 days after the game ends.