Cash CrushCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Cash Crush is a $5 ticket from the California Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $250,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 770,635, from 1 in 1,220,334 at launch. Its expected return of $0.68 per $1 sits $0.02 below the typical $5 ticket in California. On ValueScore it earns 25/100 (Below Avg), good for 10th out of 11 $5 tickets in California. Its overall odds of 1 in 4.53 trail the 1 in 3.78 typical of California's $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.2M at launch, about 1 in 771K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $250,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Most of the larger top and mid-tier prizes have already been won.
- The prize pool is running thin, with most prizes already won.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 | 1 in 1,219,589 | 14 | 6 | 43% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 588,767 | 29 | 5 | 17% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 12,058 | 1,416 | 362 | 26% |
| $500 | 1 in 2,607 | 6,550 | 1,564 | 24% |
| $100 | 1 in 400 | 42,729 | 10,455 | 24% |
| $50 | 1 in 200 | 85,381 | 21,368 | 25% |
| $30 | 1 in 150 | 113,808 | 28,538 | 25% |
| $20 | 1 in 40 | 426,856 | 108,320 | 25% |
| $15 | 1 in 27 | 640,358 | 168,678 | 26% |
| $10 | 1 in 15 | 1,173,743 | 315,902 | 27% |
| $6 | 1 in 13 | 1,280,568 | 365,510 | 29% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, 6 $250,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 6. The most recent was on October 1.
- October 1, 20261 claimed · 6 left
- August 28, 20261 claimed · 7 left
- May 25, 20261 claimed · 8 left
- April 13, 20261 claimed · 9 left
- March 28, 20261 claimed · 10 left
- March 12, 20261 claimed · 11 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.6% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for California's $5 games (1.6% 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
- 1712
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 1/19/2026
- Payout %
- 67.6%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in California
All 11 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOTERIA™ Extra! | 64 | 1 in 3.51 | 71.4% | $100K · 11 | 2.5% |
| Poker Multiplier | 62 | 1 in 3.62 | 70.1% | $75K · 22 | 2.5% |
| Full of 500's | 49 | 1 in 4.43 | 71.0% | $500 · 16,649 | 4.6% |
| JAWS | 46 | 1 in 3.81 | 70.8% | $500K · 9 | 1.0% |
| California Dreamin' | 40 | 1 in 3.75 | 70.8% | $556K · 5 | 0.0% |
| MEGA Crossword | 39 | 1 in 3.82 | 68.9% | $75K · 16 | 1.4% |
| LOTERIA™ Extra! (Game #1688) | 34 | 1 in 3.51 | 71.4% | $100K · 3 | 0.1% |
| Poker Nights | 33 | 1 in 3.62 | 70.1% | $75K · 4 | 0.7% |
| SuperLotto Plus® Multiplier | 33 | 1 in 3.81 | 63.0% | $500K · 5 | 1.6% |
| Cash Crush (this game) | 25 | 1 in 4.53 | 67.6% | $250K · 6 | 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.