Ohio’s best-rated scratch-off just paid a Berea man $1 million
A Berea man won the top prize on the Ohio Lottery's $50 Millionaire Blowout scratch-off, the lottery said Friday, September 11.
The prize for the annuity is $40,000 a year for 25 years and he took the $500,000 cash option. Dairy Deli at 17791 Sheldon Rd. in Middleburg Heights sold the ticket.
He is not the first to win the top prize on this game. A Toledo player hit the same top prize in July, took the same cash option, and won another $25,000 on the next ticket.
No scratch-off in America has more $1 million prizes left than Millionaire Blowout
The lottery says 54 top prizes remain as of this writing, and our tracker agrees. The game originally started with 60 $1 million prizes. That is the largest pool of unclaimed $1 million-plus top prizes on any scratch-off currently sold in the United States, and it is not close.
| Game | State | Price | Top prize | Still unclaimed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millionaire Blowout | Ohio | $50 | $1,000,000 | 54 |
| Millionaire Club | Illinois | $50 | $1,000,000 | 23 |
| Million Dollar Win It All | Pennsylvania | $50 | $1,000,000 | 17 |
| MILLIONAIRE RICHES | Missouri | $50 | $1,000,000 | 12 |
| MAX-A-MILLION | North Carolina | $30 | $1,000,000 | 12 |
Six have been claimed since the game launched on June 23, and about 11.6% of the print run has sold. Ten percent of the top prizes gone against 11.6% of tickets sold is close to an even pace.
With 60 top prizes spread across a run of roughly 5.2 million tickets, a $1 million winner comes up about once in every 86,000 tickets. Ohio's other big $50 games tell the story from the other side, since Ultimate $5,000,000 has three top prizes left and VIP Millions, 89% sold, has six.
A $50 ticket where the smallest win is $75
Millionaire Blowout has no prize at $50 or below. The bottom tier is $75, and it covers 1,381,632 of the 1,895,398 printed prizes, so the most common win on the ticket still puts a player $25 ahead of what they paid.
| Prize | Printed | Still unclaimed |
|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 60 | 54 |
| $25,000 | 50 | 42 |
| $5,000 | 126 | 116 |
| $1,000 | 6,300 | 5,594 |
| $500 | 17,314 | 15,283 |
| $200 | 57,983 | 51,272 |
| $100 | 431,933 | 381,580 |
| $75 | 1,381,632 | 1,220,679 |
The game pays back 81.7% of sales and rates 95.6 on our ValueScore™, still the best score in Ohio. It rated 97.2 when the Toledo win was announced in July, and the small drop reflects the tickets sold since.
A $1 million headline, a $500,000 check
The cash option on this game is exactly half the advertised prize. That is a lower conversion than some other big scratch-off annuities pay.
You can view Ohio's sales data here and ValueScore™ here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much did the Berea man take home from Millionaire Blowout?
About $366,250. The top prize is $40,000 a year for 25 years, which totals $1 million, and he chose the $500,000 cash option instead. Ohio withholds 26.75% for state and federal taxes, leaving $366,250. He bought the ticket at Dairy Deli, 17791 Sheldon Rd. in Middleburg Heights.
How many Millionaire Blowout top prizes are left?
Fifty-four of the 60 printed, as of September 10, 2026. That is more unclaimed $1 million top prizes than any other scratch-off on sale in the country. Illinois Millionaire Club is next with 23. Only about 11.6% of the Millionaire Blowout print run has sold.
What are the odds of winning the Millionaire Blowout top prize?
About one in 86,000 per ticket. That comes from the game's overall odds of one in 2.73 across roughly 1.9 million printed prizes, which puts the print run near 5.2 million tickets, with 60 of them carrying the top prize.
Jessie Jurado is a news writer who covers new scratch-off launches, state lottery guides, taxes on winnings, news, and much more. She joined ScratchCheck in 2026 and writes the site's state-by-state coverage.
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