What is Texas Two Step?
Texas Two Step is a game of chance that can be played anytime during the evening. The player buys one ticket and then selects two numbers from 1-39 on a printed grid. If both numbers are drawn, the player wins $1 million! If only one number is drawn, they win $10,000.
Biggest Texas Two-Step Winners
If you want to win big, it’s best to stick with the bigger prizes. The most common Texas Two Step prize is $2 million, but there have been several jackpots over $3 million and even one winner who walked away with $5 million in March 2015. Here are some of the most significant Texas Two Steps:
- A couple from San Antonio won $4 million on their first try! They matched all five numbers plus two extra numbers for a total prize of $4,076,957;
- A husband and wife from Dallas matched all five numbers plus one different number for a real prize of $3,816,845;
- Another husband and wife team from Irving won $2 million on their first try! They matched all five numbers plus two extra numbers for a total prize of $2,038,546;
How to Choose Winning Numbers
The first step in selecting winning numbers is to choose a strategy. There are many different strategies for selecting winning numbers, but they all have the same goal: to increase your chances of winning by picking the most likely combinations of numbers.
One popular method is called “random number generation.” This involves choosing random digits from 0 through 9, then adding them up until you get a sum that ends with a certain number (usually 5). For example, if we were trying to win $5 on scratch-off tickets and wanted our sum to finish in 7, we would add up all of our digits until we hit that target number–in this case: 2 + 4 + 6 + 9 = 21; 1 + 2 = 3; 3 x 5 = 15; 1 + 5 = 6; 6 x 7 = 42; 4 x 2 = 8
Another option would be picking two sets of five numbers at random from 0 through 9 (one group should be odd-numbered) and then adding them together until you get another set that adds up as desired–for example, 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10; 5 x 10 = 50
Odds of Winning
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. The odds of winning other prizes are much better but still could be better. For example:
- You have a 1 in 24 chance of winning $2 by matching three numbers
- You have a 1 in 11 chance of winning $1 by matching two numbers
- You have a 1 in 755 chance of winning $0.50 by matching just one number