A Houston man has won a $5 million top prize from a Texas Lottery scratch-off ticket bought at a convenience store in the city’s Uptown area, the Texas Lottery announced on Wednesday, 4 November 2026. The winner, who has chosen to remain anonymous as Texas law allows, has already claimed the prize.
The winning ticket came from the $5 Million Titanium Black game, in which tickets cost $100 each. The ticket was bought at a Super K convenience store on San Felipe Street in Uptown Houston. The store will receive $10,000 for selling the winning ticket, and its manager, Gury Rudey, shared his delight at seeing his shop sell a top-prize winner.
One of the biggest scratch-off games in Texas
The $5 Million Titanium Black game is one of the largest and most ambitious scratch-off games the Texas Lottery has offered. Tickets cost $100, prizes start at $150, and the Texas Lottery says the odds of winning any prize in the game are 25 percent higher than in its other products. The game has already paid out more than $448.6 million in winnings, according to the lottery.
At launch, the game offered four top prizes of $5 million. Following this claim, only two such top prizes remain unclaimed. That detail matters for players still buying tickets: the biggest prizes are getting scarcer, even though plenty of smaller prizes are still in play.
A run of big Texas wins
The Houston win follows a strong run for Texas Lottery players. About a month and a half earlier, a player captured a $7.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot. Before that, a Lake Jackson resident claimed a $26.75 million prize and chose the one-time lump-sum option, receiving $14,303,717.61 before taxes.
The anonymous Houston winner has not spoken publicly about the win or about any plans for the money. Texas is one of the states that allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, and the claimant has taken that option. What is known is that the claim has been completed, the prize has been paid, and a $100 ticket bought on an ordinary stop at a convenience store turned into $5 million.
Why scratch-offs keep producing millionaires
Scratch-off games are the workhorse of most state lotteries, producing winners every day while the big draw games grab the headlines with jackpots in the hundreds of millions. The Texas win is a reminder that the largest single prizes are not only found in Powerball and Mega Millions draws — a ticket scratched at a store counter can change a life just as completely, and rather more quickly.
For the Super K store on San Felipe Street, the win is also good business. A $10,000 retailer bonus and the reputation of having sold a $5 million winner are the kind of publicity no advertising budget can buy.
