Boo BucksCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Boo Bucks is a $2 ticket from the California Lottery. The $30,000 prize now runs about 1 in 643,638 by our estimate, better than 1 in 799,603 at launch. Free tickets make up 41% of its winners.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 800K at launch, about 1 in 644K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $30,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Wins are infrequent: about a 24% chance to win something per ticket (1 in 4.10), lower than most games.
- Middling prize quality: a fair number of the bigger prizes are still in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | 1 in 800,000 | 10 | 7 | 70% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 156,863 | 51 | 29 | 57% |
| $200 | 1 in 5,583 | 1,433 | 736 | 51% |
| $75 | 1 in 4,444 | 1,800 | 913 | 51% |
| $50 | 1 in 2,609 | 3,066 | 1,594 | 52% |
| $30 | 1 in 200 | 39,994 | 21,306 | 53% |
| $20 | 1 in 250 | 32,013 | 17,016 | 53% |
| $15 | 1 in 167 | 47,987 | 25,647 | 53% |
| $10 | 1 in 45 | 176,031 | 96,708 | 55% |
| $5 | 1 in 28 | 288,157 | 159,894 | 55% |
| $4 | 1 in 14 | 559,710 | 315,566 | 56% |
| $2 Free ticket | 1 in 10 | 800,000 | 459,479 | 57% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on September 22, 3 $30,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 7. The most recent was on October 16.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| September 22 | Launched | 10 |
| October 1 | 1 claimed | 9 |
| October 11 | 1 claimed | 8 |
| October 16 | 1 claimed | 7 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 7 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 6.6% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 7 times the average for California's $2 games (1% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #7 best seller of the 48 California tickets we can rank, at about 530,000 tickets 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
- 1745
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 9/21/2026
- Payout %
- 66.1%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $2 ticket in California
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary Payout | 46 | 1 in 4.09 | 65.8% | $20K · 15 | 2.2% |
| Dominoes | 40 | 1 in 4.10 | 66.2% | $30K · 10 | 0.3% |
| MONOPOLY (Game #1665) | 37 | 1 in 4.10 | 66.1% | $30K · 15 | 0.1% |
| Boo Bucks (this game) | 36 | 1 in 4.10 | 66.1% | $30K · 7 | 6.6% |
| GOOOAAAL! | 34 | 1 in 4.09 | 65.7% | $20K · 11 | 0.3% |
| Set for Life | 27 | 1 in 4.44 | 67.1% | $1.2M · 1 | 2.6% |
| Ca$h Doubler | 27 | 1 in 4.24 | 65.6% | $20K · 8 | 0.6% |
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.