$5,000,000 Extreme CashCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$5,000,000 Extreme Cash costs $20 a ticket from the California Lottery. By our estimate the $5,000,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 2,301,072 per ticket, down from 1 in 3,003,630. 50% of its winning tickets pay $20 or less, no more than the ticket cost. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.00 beat the 1 in 3.32 typical of California's $20 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 3.0M at launch, about 1 in 2.3M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $5,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- The bigger prize tiers here have plenty left to win.
- At 1 in 3.00 overall odds, prizes land more often than in most games.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 | 1 in 3,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| $100,000 | 1 in 1,200,000 | 10 | 9 | 90% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 58,824 | 204 | 168 | 82% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 4,598 | 2,610 | 2,115 | 81% |
| $500 | 1 in 459 | 26,163 | 20,050 | 77% |
| $250 | 1 in 158 | 76,023 | 57,984 | 76% |
| $100 | 1 in 40 | 299,826 | 228,737 | 76% |
| $50 | 1 in 30 | 400,000 | 305,796 | 76% |
| $40 | 1 in 30 | 400,000 | 306,092 | 77% |
| $30 | 1 in 30 | 400,000 | 306,263 | 77% |
| $25 | 1 in 30 | 400,000 | 306,568 | 77% |
| $20 | 1 in 6 | 2,000,000 | 1,534,310 | 77% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $5,000,000 top prizes left at launch on August 25 are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 2.9% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 4 times the average for California's $20 games (0.7% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- California
- Game Number
- 1744
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 8/24/2026
- Payout %
- 77.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $20 ticket in California
All 12 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden State Riches | 86 | 1 in 2.89 | 79.2% | $5M · 6 | 0.7% |
| Instant Prize Crossword | 83 | 1 in 3.10 | 78.4% | $2M · 12 | 2.2% |
| $5,000,000 Extreme Cash (this game) | 83 | 1 in 3.00 | 77.4% | $5M · 4 | 2.9% |
| Set for Life (Game #1705) | 74 | 1 in 3.32 | 78.5% | $5M · 5 | 0.4% |
| 100X The Cash | 67 | 1 in 3.32 | 78.6% | $5M · 2 | 1.2% |
| Red Carpet Riches | 64 | 1 in 3.10 | 78.3% | $2M · 5 | 0.6% |
| MONOPOLY | 63 | 1 in 3.32 | 78.4% | $5M · 4 | 0.2% |
| Cash King | 62 | 1 in 3.00 | 77.2% | $5M · 2 | 0.1% |
| Show Me $5,000,000! | 60 | 1 in 3.32 | 78.4% | $5M · 2 | 0.1% |
| 100X | 51 | 1 in 3.00 | 77.2% | $5M · 2 | 0.4% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.