Cash KingCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Cash King is a $20 ticket from the California Lottery. Our estimate for the $5,000,000 prize has slipped to about 1 in 3,745,574 per ticket, from 1 in 3,058,004 at launch. 50% of its winning tickets pay $20 or less, no more than the ticket cost.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 3.1M at launch, about 1 in 3.7M now. The $5,000,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Strong expected value of $0.77 per $1: a bigger slice of ticket sales is still sitting in the prize pool than usual.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 | 1 in 3,054,125 | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| $100,000 | 1 in 1,221,650 | 15 | 7 | 47% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 58,359 | 314 | 130 | 41% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 4,653 | 3,938 | 1,617 | 41% |
| $500 | 1 in 461 | 39,732 | 16,094 | 41% |
| $250 | 1 in 158 | 116,106 | 47,212 | 41% |
| $100 | 1 in 40 | 458,472 | 186,638 | 41% |
| $50 | 1 in 30 | 610,825 | 249,675 | 41% |
| $40 | 1 in 30 | 610,825 | 248,927 | 41% |
| $30 | 1 in 30 | 610,825 | 249,259 | 41% |
| $25 | 1 in 30 | 610,825 | 249,341 | 41% |
| $20 | 1 in 6 | 3,054,125 | 1,248,147 | 41% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $5,000,000 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 $20 games (0.9% 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
- 1664
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 2/17/2025
- Payout %
- 77.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 94 | 1 in 3.00 | 79.7% | $5M · 4 | - |
| Golden State Riches | 85 | 1 in 2.89 | 79.2% | $5M · 6 | 0.7% |
| $5,000,000 Extreme Cash | 83 | 1 in 3.00 | 77.4% | $5M · 4 | 2.8% |
| Instant Prize Crossword | 81 | 1 in 3.10 | 78.4% | $2M · 12 | 2.3% |
| 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 (this game) | 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% |
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.