Twenty-four draws a week means twenty-four chances and twenty-four stakes. The morning draw is not softer than the night draw, and playing all four does not compound anything; it is four separate bets at the same price and the same odds.
The game at a glance
3 digits, 0–9 each
1,000 possible results, repeats allowed, order counts.
4 a day
Mon · Tue · Wed · Thu · Fri · Sat. Morning 10:00 a.m. CT · Day 12:27 p.m. CT · Evening 6:00 p.m. CT · Night 10:12 p.m. CT — 24 draws a week.
1 in 1,000
The same for every one of the possible results, including the one you picked.
Fixed amounts
Printed in advance and paid in full to every winner. $500 for a $1 exact-order play.
$0.50 or $1 a play
Operated by the Texas Lottery.
18+
Must be 18+ to buy a Texas Lottery ticket.
Texas Pick 3, in brief
Texas Pick 3 is the densest daily-number schedule of any game on this site. Four separate draws run Monday through Saturday — morning, day, evening and night — which is 24 drawings a week off a single play slip. There is no Sunday draw.
The game itself is the standard three-digit format: three numbers, each 0 to 9, 1,000 possible results, every one of them as likely as the next. The Texas Lottery uses its own names for the bets. What most states call straight is Exact Order here, box is Any Order, and straight/box is Exact/Any Order.
Two things are missing from the Texas chart that appear elsewhere. There are no front-pair or back-pair plays on Pick 3, although Texas does sell them on its four-digit Daily 4. And prizes are fixed sums rather than pooled shares, so a $1 exact-order hit pays $500 whoever else holds it.
Every bet type, with the odds
| Bet type | Winning arrangements | Odds | Share of draws | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exact OrderTexas's name for a straight. The three digits must match in the order drawn. | 1 | 1 in 1,000 | $500 on a $1 play, $250 on 50¢ | |
| Any Order (6-way)Texas's name for a box, on a number with three different digits. | 6 | 1 in 167 | $80 on a $1 play, $40 on 50¢ | |
| Any Order (3-way)A box on a number with two like digits and one different. Three arrangements instead of six. | 3 | 1 in 333 | $160 on a $1 play, $80 on 50¢ | |
| Exact/Any Order (6-way)Both bets on one board. Any order pays the Any prize; the exact order pays the two prizes added together. | 6 | 1 in 167 | $290 in exact order ($250 + $40, 1 in 1,000), $40 in any other order | |
| Exact/Any Order (3-way)The same paired bet on a number with a repeated digit. | 3 | 1 in 333 | $330 in exact order ($250 + $80, 1 in 1,000), $80 in any other order | |
| Combo (6-way)Every Exact Order combination of your three digits, bought on one ticket. Any order pays the full exact-order prize. | 6 | 1 in 167 | $500 on a $6 play, $250 on $3 | |
| Combo (3-way)Three exact-order bets covering a number with a repeated digit. | 3 | 1 in 333 | $500 on a $3 play, $250 on $1.50 |
The FIREBALL add-on
One extra number drawn after the three winning digits. It doubles the cost of every board played and may replace any one of the drawn digits to create additional winning combinations, on its own shorter-odds, smaller-prize chart.
Where Texas Pick 3 came from
Renaming the street vocabulary
Straight and box are inherited words from the informal numbers game, and most state lotteries kept them. Texas did not. Its play slip and prize chart say Exact Order and Any Order, which describe the bet to somebody who has never seen one before. The arithmetic is identical; only the label changed.
Four draws a day
A digit game settles the same day it is sold, so the only real lever on its revenue is how many times a day it settles. Texas pushed that further than most, from a single draw to four: 10:00 a.m., 12:27 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 10:12 p.m. Central. The morning draw in particular has no equivalent in most states.
FIREBALL arrived on top
The FIREBALL number is a separate bet layered onto the base game. It doubles the ticket price and draws one more digit that can substitute for any of the three winning numbers, producing extra winning combinations at reduced prizes. It changes what you have bought, not the odds of the underlying draw.
Pairs on the four-digit game only
Texas offers front, mid and back pair plays on Daily 4 but none on Pick 3. It is a policy choice rather than a mathematical one; a three-digit pair bet would cover ten of the thousand results and pay at 1 in 100, exactly as it does in Florida and New York.
Playing digits, honestly
FIREBALL is sold as more ways to win, which is true, and it costs double, which is the part worth saying in the same breath. It is a second wager on the same slip, priced accordingly, not an upgrade to the first one.
Exact/Any Order looks like the best of both worlds, and it is really two half-stakes. A $1 board is a 50¢ exact bet plus a 50¢ any-order bet, so an exact hit pays $330 where a straight $1 Exact Order play would have paid $500. The difference is what the any-order coverage cost you. Every route through the chart returns about 48 to 50 cents on the dollar.
Texas publishes a number-frequency page for Pick 3. It is a history of past draws. Each new draw uses the full range of digits in every position, whatever the history says.
Texas Pick 3 — frequently asked
Four: morning at 10:00 a.m., day at 12:27 p.m., evening at 6:00 p.m. and night at 10:12 p.m. CT, Monday through Saturday. There is no Sunday drawing, which makes 24 draws a week.
They are Texas's names for straight and box. Exact Order needs the digits in the order drawn and is 1 in 1,000. Any Order accepts any arrangement, which is 1 in 167 for three different digits or 1 in 333 when one digit repeats.
An exact-order play is 1 in 1,000. A six-way any-order play is 1 in 167 and a three-way is 1 in 333. Those figures come from counting: six of the thousand possible results are rearrangements of three different digits.
No. Texas sells front, mid and back pairs on Daily 4, its four-digit game, but the Pick 3 chart offers only Exact Order, Any Order, Exact/Any Order and Combo.
It doubles what you pay and gives you a second, separate chart of shorter-odds, smaller prizes. Whether that suits you is a preference about how a bet feels. It does not change the odds of the base game, and it does not improve the fraction of your money that comes back.