Lotto Texas is a game under the Texas Lottery umbrella. It was the first In-House drawing game. Texas Lottery introduced Lotto Texas in 1992. Even before its 1st year of going LIVE, it completed $1 billion in ticket sales. It is played twice weekly. Players have to choose 6 numbers. The lottery game uses 54 balls.
Lotto Texas was sold in the earlier days as an annuity game without cash option.
Lotto Texas introduced the Quick Pick facility in 1993. The CVO option was introduced within a year of launch.
Lotto Texas is a very entertaining lotto game. You can be a multi-millionaire by playing Lotto Texas. Make the best use of this opportunity and reach high spirits since it is easy to play and win.
The jackpot prize is $14 million. The chances of winning a jackpot is 1: 25,827,165. Draws are twice a week at 10:12 pm central time on Wednesday and Saturdays. Lotto Texas tickets are not sold during Draw Break - from 10:00 pm - 10:15 p.m.
Though Lotto Texas began in 1992, it was changed to 6/54 format in 2000. Subsequently it was changed to Powerball and back to 6/54 format in April 2006.
In the case of a dispute, the results of the official drawing will prevail.
A ticket becomes a valid winning ticket only if it is presented for payment and also it should meet the validation requirements of the commission.
All said and done, a guaranteed and assured winner in every draw or game of Lotto Texas is Texas Education.
Your chances of winning
The overall chance of winning a jackpot is 1 in 25,827,165.
You would, if you are a regular player of lottery, spent enough time, effort and even money, placing bets on Lotto Texas. You must have done so without the knowledge that there is a probable way to predict the numbers that are very likely to appear in the lottery draws. If you carefully analyse the historical results, you could be able to see a patterns emerging from the earlier draws. You could use these emerging patterns to identify the number combinations that are most likely to achieve.
Prize Money
Prizes up to $599 may be collected from the Lotto Texas retailer.
Prizes from $599 to $ 1,000,000 (including) may be collected from the Lotto Texas claim centre. You would need to fill up a claim form for the same.
The claim form is available both with the retailer and on their website too.
Those prizes that are above $1,000,000 are to be collected from the head quarters of Lotto Texas which is in Austin.
Prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the draw else you would forfeit the same.
Tips to win Lotto Texas
The legend behind picking up the successful lotto numbers is to challenge the plausible.
You have chances to win Lotto Texas by scrutinizing the past lotto results.
Odd-Even Numbers
Blend together odd and even numbers when you choose your Lotto Texas. The best combination is to have 2/4, 4/2, or 3/3 which signifies two odd and four even, or four odd and two even, or three odd or three even.
High-Low Numbers
Winning numbers are displayed across the number field. In Lotto Texas, if the number field is divided into two, numbers 1 to 27 would be spread in the low half and 28 to 54 in the high half. If you merge together the numbers, the best composition is to have 2/4, 4/2 or 3/3 that denote two high and four low or four high and two low, or three high and three low.
Group Strategy
Tracing the past winning numbers for Lotto Texas, you can determine the numbers to be neglected and the numbers which should be given importance.
Sum of individual numbers
A time tested technique you have on your side is to make a number selection after summing up of all your selected numbers. Always bear in mind that a sum that falls between 124 and 200 has a higher probability. When summed up, the numbers chosen should be balanced. Either way outside the figures, would mean result in imbalance thereby significantly reducing the possibility of winning.
Strategy Using Skipped Games
Make a list of all the games skipped since that last win.
Now mark the numbers of times each skip occurred in the whole list. If a skip did not occur between 0 and 5, bet on those numbers that are out that many number of games.
You should never play or place bets out of despair. Our internal emotion would reflect in the results. Hence if you are fearful of losing, you might just loose. It is recommended that you have an extremely strong desire to win and you might just win.
Avoid those combinations of numbers that have been drawn earlier
In Lotto Texas, the chance of a combination being drawn a second time is once every 220,745 years.
Avoid continuous lotto numbers
In the history of most International lottery games, 6 consecutive numbers have never been drawn.
Avoid the same digit in the last position of all numbers. It would occur in less than 3% of the drawings.
Avoid the combination 1 2 3 4 5 6. This is extremely out of balance to appear in a random draw.