Texas Lottery Daily 4 General Information and Links

How to Play Texas Daily 4 Lottery

From a Texas Lottery retailer (a gas station, a convenience store, a food store, etc. which plays TX Lottery) get a Daily 4 playslip. A playslip contains five different play areas. Each play area represents a different Daily 4 play.

Each play area contains four columns of the digits 0 to 9. Mark the first digit of your number on the first column, the second digit on the second column, the third digit on the third column, and the fourth digit on the fourth column. So, if you want to play 8142, then 8 will be marked in the first column, 1 in the second column, 4 in the third column, and 2 in the fourth column. Next select and mark the amount (50¢, $1, or $5), then select the type of play - Exact Order, Any Order, Exact/Any, or Combo.

The other three play types need only partial selection of numbers. For "Front Pair", you need to mark only the first two columns, for "Mid Pair", you need to mark only the middle two columns, and for "Back Pair", you need to mark only the last two columns.

The numbers you are playing are valid only for the next draw. You may specify either the day or evining draw, or both. In fact, playing both draws doubles the price.

Next, present the completed playslip to the lottery retailer to receive your printed ticket. Check your ticket immediately to ensure that the numbers, dates, and play type match your request.

You may also look at a Daily 4 playslip here.

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Play Types and How You Win the Texas Daily 4 Lottery

There are seven ways you can play and win the Texas Daily 4 game - two basic types and two shortcuts of the basic types. These types together with how much is paid for a winning Texas Daily 4 game type are listed below.

The basic Daily 4 play types are:

1. Exact Order: You win by matching the winning Daily 4 number in the exact order drawn. For example, if you play 8142 as Exact Order, you'll win only if the winning number is exactly 8142; you don't win anything if the winning number is 8412 or 8144.

   The prize of Texas Daily 4 Exact Order game is $5,000 for a $1 game and $2,500 for a 50¢ game.

2. Any Order: You win by matching the numbers in any order. For example, if you play 8142 as Any Order, you'll win if the Daily 4 winning number contains the four digits 1, 2, 4, and 8 in any order, such as 2148 or 4218; but not if any one is missing like 8144.

   The prize of Texas Daily 4 box play depends on whether the digits are repeated or not.

   • A number such as 8142, where none of the digits repeats is called a 24-way box and pays $200 for a $1 game and $100 for a 50¢ game.
   • If one of the digits is double, like 8182, then it is called a 12-way box and pays $400 for a $1 game and $200 for a 50¢ game.
   • If two digits are doubled, like 8118, then it is called a 6-way box and pays $800 for a $1 game and $400 for a 50¢ game.
   • If one of the digits is tripled, like 8188, then it is called a 4-way box and pays $1200 for a $1 game and $600 for a 50¢ game.
   • There is no Any Order play for numbers with all four identical digits such as 8888. These Daily 4 numbers can only be played in Exact Order.

3. Front Pair: Select only the first two digits to win $50 for a $1 game and $25 for a 50¢ game. For example, if you play the Front Pair 13 (i.e., 13XX), you'll win as long as the first two digits of the winning number are 13 in exact order. So, you'll win with 1300, 1392, etc., but not with 0130 or 3113.

4. Mid Pair: Select only the middle two digits to win $50 for a $1 game and $25 for a 50¢ game. For example, if you play the Mid Pair 13 (i.e., X13X), you'll win as long as the middle two digits of the winning number are 13 in exact order. So, you'll win with 0130, 1132, etc., but not with 1310 or 9913.

5. Back Pair: Select only the last two digits to win $50 for a $1 game and $25 for a 50¢ game. For example, if you play the Back Pair 13 (i.e., XX13), you'll win as long as the last two digits of the winning number are 13 in exact order. So, you'll win with 0013, 9813, etc., but not with 0031 or 3131.

And the shortcut play types are:

6. Exact/Any: is simply a combination of a 50¢ Exact Order play and a 50¢ Any Order play. This play type is designed to save you time; it is a shortcut of playing one game of Exact Order and another game of Any Order of the same number. That is, instead of filling one panel for 50¢ Exact Order and another panel for 50-cents Any Order, of the same number, you might as well fill out just one panel and mark it as Exact/Any. Note that the minimum amount for a Exact/Any play type is $1.

The prize of a Exact/Any play is the sum of a 50¢ Exact game and a 50¢ Any game. For example, if you play 8142 as Exact/Any, and if the winning number is 8142, then you'll win $2600 ($2500 for the Exact part + $100 for the Any part). If the winning number is 8124, you'll win only $100 for the Any part since you did not match it exactly. How much do you win with Exact/Any of the number 8182? (Answer), 8118? (Answer), 8188? (Answer).

7. Combo: This is the same as playing Exact Order all possible combination of the selected number. For example, if you want to win $5000 on the number 8188 in any order it is drawn, then you have to play Exact Order all the possible combinations, namely, 8188, 1888, 8818, and 8881, at a price of $4 ($1 for each). The shortcut is simply to fill out any one of the combinations (say, 1888) and mark Combo for $1; you'll still pay $4. Note that a $1 combo play of a non-repeating-digit number such as 8142 costs $24 since there are 24 possible combinations (1248, 2148, 1284, 1482, etc.).

Daily 4 Sum It Up

Sum It Up is an add-on feature to Daily 4, for an extra 50¢ or more, you can win a prize even if your exact numbers aren't drawn. You'll win if the sum of your Daily 4 numbers is the same as the sum of the winning number. For example, if you play 8142 and if you add Sum It Up feature for $1, you'll win $8 as long as the sum the winning number is 15, such as 5055, 1239, 7800, etc.

Daily 4 Sum It Up prizes for $1:

Please see the complete prize list of Texas Daily 4 Sum It Up, which includes prizes for 50¢ and $1 to $5.

The prizes are inversely proportional to the odds of each sum. Sums of 0 and 36 are the least likely since each covers only one number, 0000 and 9999, respectively. Therefore, they are allocated the highest prize. On the other hand, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 are the most likely to be drawn, thus with the lowest prizes.
The odds and all possible combinations of 4-digit games are available on this web site at 4-digit Sums.

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Prizes and Odds of Texas Lottery Daily 4

How much does Texas Daily 4 pay for Straight or Box? The following is a summary of winner prize payouts and the odds of winning.

Note that a 24-way Any Order is a number with four non-identical digits; a 12-way Any Order has one of the digits repeated; a 6-way Any Order has two of the digits doubled; a 4-way Any Order has one digits and three identical digits.

For Texas Lottery general rules and how to claim prizes, please see Texas Lottery general info page.

Links to some Daily 4 pages of the Texas Lottery Official Web Site

Although we have tried to cover all the pertinent information of the Texas Daily 4, we recommend that you also look at the following pages at the Texas Lottery official web site.

• Texas Lottery Daily 4 game information
• Texas Lottery Daily 4 On-Line Game Rule

Texas Daily 4 at US-Lotteries.com

The main purpose of this web site (US-Lotteries.com) is to present a well formatted latest and past results; analysis and statistics of past winning numbers, digits, pairs, triads; search to see if your favorite numbers have ever won or have come close to winning the jackpot; mathematical tools such as combinations generators and wheels. The complete list of all Texas Daily 4 pages of this web site are listed below.

• Texas lottery Daily 4 summary of page contents with latest and recent results
• All past winning numbers of the Texas lottery Daily 4 displayed on a monthly calendar
• Search for the past performace of any Texas lottery Daily 4 with full or partial match
• Yearly Texas lottery Daily 4 winning numbers on a calendar for printing
• Classification and history of Texas lottery Daily 4 Boxes(Combos)
• Data on Texas lottery Daily 4 quadruple-digit numbers
• Frequency and last appearance of Texas lottery Daily 4 individual digits
• Texas Daily 4 exact order statistics with least and most frequently drawn, never drawn numbers
• Texas Daily 4 any order (box) statistics for the different groups
• Frequency and last appearance of Texas lottery Daily 4 front, mid, and back pairs
• Statistics of Texas lottery Daily 4 sum of digits
• Generate Texas Daily 4 combinations from a number with 2 or more digits

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