Someone in Lubbock just scored $1 million from the Texas Lottery, thanks to a Quick Pick ticket. They’re one of only a handful of Powerball winners so far this year, with most of the jackpot winners in 2026 hitting it big with scratch-offs.
The last lottery ticket I bought was a scratch ticket when I bought a few for stocking stuffers just before Christmas. And I can’t even remember the last ticket I bought for myself. The truth is that I’m a total pessimist when it comes to any sort of gambling, so I rarely do it.
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But if I were to buy a Powerball ticket, I would most certainly go the Quick Pick route. The way I see it is that with my luck, if I were to always play the same numbers, those numbers would hit the jackpot the week in which I got busy and forgot to buy a ticket. Yeah, someone would have to talk me down off the ledge if that happened…