Show Me $5,000,000!California Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Show Me $5,000,000! costs $20 a ticket from the California Lottery. Free tickets make up 33% of its winners. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 3,043,101 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Inventory is about half depleted, but a fair number of prizes are still out there.
- Each $1 spent here returns about $0.78 on average, comfortably above the typical scratch-off.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 | 1 in 3,038,646 | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| $2,500 | 1 in 3,985 | 3,813 | 1,414 | 37% |
| $500 | 1 in 250 | 60,796 | 22,022 | 36% |
| $250 | 1 in 355 | 42,851 | 15,588 | 36% |
| $100 | 1 in 89 | 170,820 | 61,992 | 36% |
| $75 | 1 in 60 | 253,170 | 91,921 | 36% |
| $50 | 1 in 30 | 506,441 | 184,798 | 36% |
| $40 | 1 in 15 | 1,012,882 | 369,560 | 36% |
| $30 | 1 in 15 | 1,012,882 | 371,837 | 37% |
| $20 Free ticket | 1 in 10 | 1,519,323 | 563,364 | 37% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $5,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on April 5.
- April 5, 20261 claimed · 2 left
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 (1% 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
- 1678
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 5/19/2025
- Payout %
- 78.4%
- 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 | 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! (this game) | 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.