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Originally Posted: 7-21-02
Revised: Will update after each draw

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All About The Texas Lottery

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Texas Cash 5
Ticket Sales & Prize Payouts

- Winning Numbers/Drawing Results -
All Games, Click here

All TX Games - Draw Sales Plus More
Cash5 - Sales by Draw, (Below)
Pick3 - Ticket sales vs winnings, Click here
Daily 4 - Ticket sales vs winnings, Click here
Fireball - Pick3, Ticket sales and winnings, Click here
Fireball - Daily 4, Ticket sales and winnings, Click here
Mega Millions - Sales broken down by State, Click here
Lone Star Line Up (Ongoing Promo) - Draw sales, click here
Lotto Texas - Just Sales & Jackpot Amounts, Click here
Powerball - Sales Broken Down by State, Click here
Megaplier Sales broken down by state - Click here
All or Nothing - Sales and winnings by the draw, Click here
Mega Millions - Just Ticket Sales and Jackpot Amounts, Click here
Lotto Texas - Roll sales, winnings, factors for each draw, Click here
Powerball & Powerplay - Just Sales and Jackpot Amounts - Click here
Texas 2 Step - Sales and winnings by the draw and by the roll, Click here
Texas Triple Chance - (Game Ended) Sales and % Returned to Players, Click here

An Interesting Tidbit
- Since C5 Rule Change of 9/29/18 -
(Reduced $2 prize for matching 2 of 5 numbers
to receiving a FREE ticket instead. An indication
of how many FAIL to collect this 50 cent prize.
Links about C5 rule at bottom of this page.)
- 9/28/18 through 12/10/24 -
Matched 2 of 5 Numbers: 43,739,498
Match 2 of 5 (Free Tickets) Cashed In: 41,224,850
# of tickets NOT cashed in: 2,514,648
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Past Years Cash5 Sales & Payouts
Links at bottom of this page

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Current Year Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, shown above

2023 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, Click here
2022 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, Click here
2021 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2020 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2019 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2018 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2017 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2016 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2015 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2014 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2013 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2012 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2011 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2010 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2009 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2008 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2007 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2006 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2005 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2004 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2003 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here
2002 Cash 5 Sales & Payouts, click here

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Texas Lottery FY Audited Sales - All Games
FY92 to Present, click here (pdf)

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About the Cash 5 Rule
Sept 23, 2018 - Click here

Read the Cash 5 2018 rule,
click here (pdf)

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As Requested For Years ... Here it is!
"Numbers Frequency" plus more for Cash5. Shows times drawn
also broken down by week day and year since 5/37 began.
Originally posted 9/9/13 - updated daily - Click here

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Here's how Cash 5 payouts are figured ...
it's as easy as 1-2-3 ...

Players receive 50% of sales - Let's pretend sales were $550,000
which means there's $275,000 in the "prize pool." Since there is
a new $2 "guaranteed" prize - the TLC opted to take those prizes
right off the top of the players prize pool - the 50%. (They should
do this for Lotto Texas & Texas 2 Step but they don't)

So, let's say there were 64,924 people who won $2 each.
The total for them is $129,848.

Now you deduct $129,848 from the players prize pool ($275,000)
which leaves $145,152 in the "residual prize pool." (They now
have 2 prize pools)

The 5 of 5 winners share from the "residual prize pool" is 40.15%
which means the 5 of 5 winner(s) will receive or divide $58,278.

The 4 of 5 winners share is 18.08% of the "residual prize pool." Let's
say there are 278 winners so they will divide $26,243 by 278
meaning each will receive $94.

The 3 of 5 winners share is 41.77% of the "residual prize pool."
Let's say there are 6488 winners so they will divide $60,629 by
6488 meaning each will receive $9.

The TLC rounds down to even dollars and supposedly, the excess
funds are used in the next draw. However, players would be better
off if we recieved the "exact" amount, including the cents, due us.
This would "insure" players receiving 50% of sales.

If there are no 5 of 5 winners, the money in the 5 of 5 pool
is moved down to the 4 of 5 prize pool and is divided by the
4 of 5 winners. This means the 4 of 5 winners share becomes
58.23% of the "residual prize pool."

Just for your information, under the old rule, players received
50% of sales. The 5 of 5 winners divided 20%, the 4 of 5 winners
divided 30% and the 3 of 5 winners divided 50% of the prize pool.

Like Lotto Texas 6/54, the TLC increased the percentage
the top prize winner received and lowered the middle prize.

The TLC's Best Kept Secrets
About the 5/37 Cash 5 Rule
A new point of sale piece for Cash 5 hit the stores a couple of
weeks prior to the start of the new game. It read in part:

- Special Cash 5 Stories -
Players are getting madder by the day and
are calling for a boycott ... Click here to read

TLC Paints Rosy Picture For 1st Week of
Sales Under 5/37 - Click here to read.

How the Cash 5 Fared at the
End of the 1st Week ...
The answers to your questions as
I see them. Click here to read.

The History of Cash 5
Click here.

As of July 29, 2002 ...
Match 2 of 5 numbers - win guaranteed $2
Match 3 of 5 numbers - win approx. $10
Match 4 of 5 numbers - win approx $137
Match 5 of 5 numbers - win approx the same as it has been
or maybe a little bit more because they increased the percentage
allocated to the 5 of 5 prize winners

Links Regarding the 2002 Cash 5 Changes
To read the March 6, 2002 Commissioners Meeting where
they voted to propose a new Cash 5 rule, click here.
(Here you'll see the reasons the staff wanted these changes
and what they did NOT tell the Commissioners.)

To read the proposed rule itself ... click here.
Here you can see how the percentages changed for each prize
category and how they devised a way to pay the $2 guaranteed
prizes. Actually, this is how they should do all "guaranteed"
prizes. Especially for Lotto Texas & Texas 2 Step. This way,
they could do away with the "reserve fund" which would
then make the payouts fair. But I'm sure they don't want
to do this, then they would NOT get the excess funds!

To read my letter of opposition (pdf) ... click here.

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