Southlake gas station sells winning $19.5M Texas Lotto ticket

Oct 22, 2013, 8:25 am (31 comments)

Texas Lottery

What would you do with $19.5 million dollars?

A Southlake, Texas, gas station sold the $19.5 million winning ticket for Saturday's Lotto Texas jackpot, according to the Texas Lottery.

The winner, who chose the random Quick Pick option, has not been identified yet.

"Today a lot of people came by" to try their luck after learning the Shell station near North Kimball Avenue and Northwest Parkway had sold the drawing's only jackpot-winning ticket, employee Temesgen Desta said.

Desta said no one at the store knows which employee sold the ticket with the winning numbers, 1, 7, 15, 35, 43, and 53.

The last Lotto Texas jackpot-winning ticket sold in North Texas was a $16 million ticket bought in Fort Worth for the Feb. 20 drawing.

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Dallas News, Lottery Post Staff

Comments

rcbbuckeye's avatarrcbbuckeye

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

cash4ninja

All odd numbers

RedStang's avatarRedStang

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Oct 22, 2013

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

Nothing worse then being so close. Would of been funny if you called in sick.

BuyLow's avatarBuyLow

Quote: Originally posted by cash4ninja on Oct 22, 2013

All odd numbers

That's odd. lol...

billionaire2bee

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Oct 22, 2013

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

I guess you better start buying tickets there too then LOL

cash4ninja

Quote: Originally posted by BuyLow on Oct 22, 2013

That's odd. lol...

Lurking

Not really a lot of times the winning numbers be all odd / prime numbers........

Gleno's avatarGleno

Maybe I should try buying my lottery tickets at gas stations. ;-).

Surprised to find  two instant scratch off  tickets that were disgarded that had a $5.00 prize and a $10.00 prize.

Guess the players were in such a hurry to get to some place that they did not realize that they had winnings that they threw away. Still don't understand it but taking a second look might prove to be an interesting strategy.

Anyone else have similar experiences with instant scratch off tickets? Wink

Todd's avatarTodd

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Oct 22, 2013

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

There's another thread on the forums asking what people love about Lottery Post.  You know what I love?  We have such a deep and rich membership that I post a news story about a gas station, and a member here (a great long-termer too!) knows about that station and in fact buys gas there.  That just makes me smile.  Cheers

JezzVim

What a way to fill his tank!!   Congrats!  Hope they use their heads with the winnings!

chrissy16

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Oct 22, 2013

There's another thread on the forums asking what people love about Lottery Post.  You know what I love?  We have such a deep and rich membership that I post a news story about a gas station, and a member here (a great long-termer too!) knows about that station and in fact buys gas there.  That just makes me smile.  Cheers

Dang, that sucks.  I wish it was somebody from here I would love to see that.  But to my surprise a gas station, a Shell gas station.  I mean who knew a 19 Million ticket would have been sold there.

Artist77's avatarArtist77

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Oct 22, 2013

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

oh so close. You had a glimpse from your co-workers as to what it would be like to win. Do all Shells sell lottery tickets?  I never see lottery signs at them in Northern VA but also never go inside to ask either.

Erzulieredeyes's avatarErzulieredeyes

Quote: Originally posted by Artist77 on Oct 22, 2013

oh so close. You had a glimpse from your co-workers as to what it would be like to win. Do all Shells sell lottery tickets?  I never see lottery signs at them in Northern VA but also never go inside to ask either.

I rarely ever see lotto signs posted in gas stations windows, but I would assume most Shells sell lottery tickets, at least they do here in Ohio.

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congratulation to the winners/sHurray!

Piaceri

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Oct 22, 2013

I buy gas there sometimes, but never buy my tics there.

Everybody at work thought I was the winner, LOL.

I only wish.

Oh so close! So will you start buying tickets there? Shell stations usually are lucky, as are Texaco stations.

 

Texas Lotto wins in 3 regions - DFW, El Paso, and the Valley. I think Houston may have one it, once. This one took sooooo long to grow. The new lotto is horrible.

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