AUSTIN — 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. The claimant added: “We’re planning to save the money for the time being until we decide what we want to do with it.”
QuikTrip #4165 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 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. Texas joined the multijurisdictional Powerball game in 2010 and had its first Powerball jackpot winner in 2013 when Paul McDowell of Bells claimed the $40 million jackpot from the May 29, 2013 drawing.
The winning Powerball jackpot on May 2 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.
Powerball Grand Prizes currently start at $20 million and roll until the jackpot is won. Players win the Grand Prize by matching five numbers from a field of 69 numbers and one Powerball number from a field of 26 numbers. By choosing Power Play® for $1 more per Play, players can multiply their non-Grand Prize winnings by two, three, four, five or 10 times*. A Power Play Match Five (5+0) prize is set at $2 million regardless of the Power Play number selected. All other non-Grand Prizes will be multiplied by the Power Play number selected. (*The 10X Power Play multiplier is available for drawings in which the initially advertised annuitized Grand Prize amount is $150 million or less.).
Drawings are broadcast each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:12 p.m. CT. 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. CT on draw nights.
