Something funny happened during the Lotto Texas and Powerball drawings Saturday night. Both an Australia Play and a Pattern encore were spotted, but that wasn’t the “funny” part. For the first time in a long time, the Lotto Texas jackpot became larger than the one in Powerball! A winning ticket in Virginia forced the Powerball jackpot to reset to $20 million. Meanwhile, the Lotto Texas jackpot grew to $51 million.
Lotto Texas
General Lottery Analysis
An Australia Play made the jackpot boost of March 4, 2023 possible. With winning numbers 10, 17, 33, 34, 41 and 49, both the {2-2-2} Pattern and the 2 2 2 Specific Order have played 301 times.

There have now been 2132 Lotto Texas drawings, and an Australia Play has been featured 14.1% of the time. Previously, an Australia Play was featured in the February 20, 2023 drawing.
Four-Number Combinations
A couple of repeating Four-Number Combinations were also spotted:
- 10, 33, 34, 49 (Debuted March 14, 2015)
- 10, 17, 33, 34 (Debuted December 17, 2014)

Powerball
General Lottery Analysis
The {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern’s return was what triggered Powerball’s’ jackpot reset. Thanks to 10, 16, 18, 40, 66 and PB 16, this Pattern played for the 335th time.

The {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has now played in 39.2% of the 854 Powerball drawings and was last seen March 1, 2023.
The [1-2-1-1-1] General Order, now with 87 appearances, has played in 26% of the 335 drawings where {2-1-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern. Once all 854 drawings have been taken into consideration, this General Order has played 10.2% of the time. The [1-2-1-1-1] General Order was last seen February 20, 2023.
Now with 18 appearances, the 1 2 1 0 1 1 Specific Order has played in 20.7% of the 87 drawings where the General Order was [1-2-1-1-1]. This Specific Order has also played in 5.37% of the 335 drawings where {2-1-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern and in 2.11% of all 854 drawings. Prior to Saturday night, the 1 2 1 0 1 1 Specific Order played December 21, 2022.
Three-Number Combinations
Repeating Three-Number Combination 10, 16 and 40 debuted March 1, 2017.

It’s not often that Lotto Texas has a larger jackpot than Powerball. Will this remain true Monday night, or will Lotto Texas face The Reset?