California JackpotCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
California Jackpot is one of the California Lottery's $10 games. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.42 are the best of the 10 $10 tickets California sells. Free tickets make up 14% of its winners.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Inventory is about half depleted, but a fair number of prizes are still out there.
- $0.74 returned per dollar is roughly what most scratch-offs pay right now.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 1 in 2,047,812 | 8 | 3 | 38% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 390,060 | 42 | 15 | 36% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 195,030 | 84 | 36 | 43% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 2,673 | 6,128 | 2,483 | 41% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,371 | 11,953 | 4,819 | 40% |
| $100 | 1 in 89 | 184,387 | 74,337 | 40% |
| $50 | 1 in 100 | 163,931 | 66,137 | 40% |
| $40 | 1 in 100 | 163,893 | 67,255 | 41% |
| $30 | 1 in 100 | 163,955 | 66,953 | 41% |
| $25 | 1 in 50 | 328,107 | 133,001 | 41% |
| $20 | 1 in 20 | 819,216 | 334,570 | 41% |
| $15 | 1 in 10 | 1,638,250 | 675,501 | 41% |
| $10 Free ticket | 1 in 25 | 655,300 | 273,269 | 42% |
| $10 | 1 in 25 | 655,118 | 270,983 | 41% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 3 $1,000,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for California's $10 games (2% 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
- 1695
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 9/22/2025
- Payout %
- 74.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $10 ticket in California
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Crossword | 79 | 1 in 3.47 | 78.5% | $750K · 21 | 4.0% |
| Set For Life | 78 | 1 in 3.76 | 78.4% | $6M · 5 | 4.6% |
| Polar Payout | 71 | 1 in 3.61 | 74.0% | $1M · 4 | - |
| $1,000,000 Poker | 61 | 1 in 3.50 | 74.7% | $1M · 9 | 1.1% |
| Neon Jackpot | 57 | 1 in 3.42 | 74.2% | $1M · 5 | 2.0% |
| California Jackpot (this game) | 54 | 1 in 3.42 | 74.0% | $1M · 3 | 0.1% |
| California Color Pop | 46 | 1 in 3.50 | 74.5% | $1M · 1 | 0.7% |
| $1,000,000 Money Mania | 45 | 1 in 3.42 | 74.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.7% |
| Mystery Crossword (Game #1708) | 45 | 1 in 3.47 | 78.1% | $750K · 5 | 0.5% |
| $50 or $100 | 27 | 1 in 8.13 | - | $100 · 134,561 | - |
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.