Your Best Shot at a Big Texas Lottery Win? It’s Colossal Cash, Hands Down

The Texas Lottery Scratch Off that gives you the best chances of winning a big jackpot is Colossal Cash. No other game even comes close.

Proving This Claim

The odds of winning the top prizes of almost every scratch-off game are 1 in 1,440,000, or worse (featuring jackpots bigger than $5,000).

The odds table for the Colossal Cash game shows that the odds of winning 1 of the 50 top jackpots of $50,000 are 1 in 120,000.

That's better than a 1100% increase over the odds of winning your standard Texas Lottery scratch off.

The Odds Have Actually Gotten Better!

Using data from the Texas Lottery website, the odds of scoring a $50,000 payout from this game are a little better than the table above.

Approximately 40% of this game's 5.9 million tickets have been purchased. There are still 34 winning tickets in circulation that feature the top jackpot prize. That means the chances of purchasing one of those jackpot tickets are around 1 in 105,500.

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How The Texas Lottery Can Offer These Odds

Colossal Cash offers 50 winning cards, each paying out $50,000. How does the Texas Lottery offer up so many top prizes with such great odds of winning (relatively speaking)?

It's all in the price point.

Each ticket costs $20. The top payout for almost every $20 scratch-off ticket is $1 million. Those games usually feature 4 top payouts.

$50,000 is nowhere near a $1 million payout, but the potential to have up to 50 winners of $50,000 creates quite a frenzy and presents a fresh marketing ploy for the Texas Lottery.

I mean, if you have $20 to spend on a lottery ticket, would you rather try your luck on the extremely infinitesimally small chances of winning $1 million, or would you rather opt for the very slim chances of winning $50,000?

Here are the locations of the 16+ winners, so far.