Jaws 50th Anniversary Celebrated With New Texas Lottery Scratch Ticket Game

Special events and movie showings this summer mark new game and film’s anniversary; non-winning tickets offer a second chance to play for $1 million

AUSTIN (June 3, 2025) – Set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the classic blockbuster movie, the Texas Lottery has launched a Jaws-inspired scratch off ticket game. This new $5 scratch ticket game features chances to win cash prizes up to $100,000. Players will also have opportunities to enjoy a wave of special events and movie showings this summer. Non-winning tickets from the scratch ticket game can be entered into the $1,000,000 JAWS Challenge Promotional Second-Chance Drawings for chances to win a VIP trip and cash prizes up to $1 million.

The Steven Spielberg-directed blockbuster, Jaws made its cinematic debut in 1975 and quickly turned into a phenomenon, earning accolades and awards on its way to becoming one of the highest grossing movies of all time. With its iconic and instantly recognizable movie poster and imagery, Jaws has secured its place as a popculture icon. This summer, the Texas Lottery is teaming up with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Texas to celebrate the movie’s milestone anniversary through special Jaws screenings.

“Our Jaws extravaganza will be swimmingly entertaining,” said Sergio Rey, acting deputy executive director of the Texas Lottery. “We can’t wait to give players the opportunity to revisit this iconic movie – or enjoy it for the first time – while offering them the chance to win $100,000 instantly or up to $1 million in our second-chance promotion.”

This summer’s Jaws celebration includes a number of exciting opportunities for Texas Lottery® players and fans of the movie to sink their teeth into:

• Launched on June 2 and available at Texas Lottery retail locations, the Jaws-inspired scratch ticket game offers total cash prizes of more than $24.8 million, with more than 1.7 million winning tickets up for grabs – including four top prizes of $100,000 and other cash prizes ranging from $5 to $1,000. Players can use the Scratch Ticket and Retailer Locator on the Texas Lottery website or on the Texas Lottery App to find games in their area. Anyone buying a ticket must be 18 or older and tickets must not be purchased for minors.

• Players can enter their non-winning Jaws-inspired scratch tickets into one of the four $1,000,000 Jaws Challenge Promotional Second-Chance Drawings through their Luck Zone account, for a chance to win a trip to Austin, Texas, in early 2027. The trip will include a movie screening of Jaws, featuring a meal and concessions, as well as the opportunity to take part in the $1,000,000 Jaws Challenge Game Show, where trip prize winners will have a chance to win $1 million. Complete information about drawings and prizes is available at www.txjaws.com.

• Movie fans will have four chances to attend one of Alamo Drafthouse’s “Jaws On The Water” events at Volente Beach Resort in Leander, TX, in June and July. Sponsored by the Texas Lottery, this immersive, unforgettable screening experience features a huge inflatable outdoor screen placed at the water’s edge with intrepid viewers watching the movie while floating in inner tubes. Spots can be reserved for the June 7, June 21, July 12 or July 26 events here. Ticket prices include event admission and a custom inner tube designed by Alamo Drafthouse for the Jaws 50th anniversary. In addition, the Texas Lottery will award tickets through a contest being conducted on its official Facebook page on June 9, June 30 and July 14.

• In July, the Alamo Drafthouse will be screening a selection of other films at locations across Texas. The “Great Bites” film series, sponsored by the Texas Lottery, will feature Piranha (1978), The Shallows (2016), Alligator (1980), Deep Blue Sea (1999), and Grizzly (1976). Tickets are free with the purchase of a $5 food and beverage voucher. View details here.

  
  

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About the Texas Lottery

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About Jaws

Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry 50 years ago on June 20, 1975. When the seaside community of Amity Island finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, five decades later, Universal Pictures’ Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.

About Alamo

Drafthouse Cinema Alamo Drafthouse Cinema was founded in 1997 as a single-screen mom and pop repertory theater in Austin, TX. Twenty-eight years later, with 42 locations and counting, Alamo Drafthouse has been called “the best theater in America” by Entertainment Weekly and “the best theater in the world” by Wired. Alamo Drafthouse has built a reputation as a movie lover’s oasis not only by combining best-in-class food and drink service with the moviegoing experience, but also introducing unique programming and high-profile, star-studded special events. Alamo Drafthouse created Fantastic Fest, a world-renowned genre film festival dubbed “The Geek Telluride” by Variety featuring independents, international filmmakers, and major Hollywood studios. Alamo Drafthouse continues to expand its brand in new and exciting ways, including the American Genre Film Archive, a non-profit film archive dedicated to preserving, restoring and sharing film, and with several new theaters announced for this year and beyond.