$250,000 HOLIDAY CA$H is one of the Florida Lottery's $5 games. The Florida Lottery stops selling it on October 23, 2026. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $250,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 402,456, from 1 in 3,150,518 at launch. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.67 are the best of the 26 $5 tickets Florida sells. Its expected return of $0.69 per $1 sits $0.03 below the typical $5 ticket in Florida.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 3.2M at launch, about 1 in 402K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $250,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Prize quality is thin, with the bigger winners mostly gone.
- Winning tickets come up at a 27% clip (1 in 3.67), above the norm.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 | 1 in 3,154,560 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 315,456 | 40 | 0 | Claimed |
| $2,000 | 1 in 121,329 | 104 | 3 | 3% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 15,094 | 836 | 29 | 3% |
| $500 | 1 in 2,727 | 4,627 | 167 | 4% |
| $100 | 1 in 200 | 63,175 | 2,271 | 4% |
| $50 | 1 in 200 | 63,248 | 1,997 | 3% |
| $30 | 1 in 200 | 63,085 | 2,234 | 4% |
| $20 | 1 in 50 | 252,326 | 12,225 | 5% |
| $10 | 1 in 8 | 1,682,458 | 92,484 | 5% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 1,303,904 | 107,910 | 8% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $250,000 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% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Florida's $5 games (0.5% 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
- Florida
- Game Number
- 1611
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 10/27/2025
- Payout %
- 68.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Florida
All 26 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pearls | 67 | 1 in 3.93 | 73.1% | $1M · 3 | 6.4% |
| GIANT BUCKS | 63 | 1 in 3.75 | 70.3% | $1M · 3 | 1.2% |
| 50X THE CASH | 57 | 1 in 3.81 | 71.1% | $1M · 7 | 0.5% |
| POWER 20X | 56 | 1 in 3.91 | 72.5% | $1M · 2 | 4.2% |
| Jeopardy! | 55 | 1 in 3.86 | 73.6% | $1M · 4 | 0.0% |
| America 250 Florida | 54 | 1 in 4.01 | 72.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.6% |
| The Price is Right™ | 48 | 1 in 4.00 | 72.8% | $1M · 4 | 0.1% |
| Silver & Gold Crossword | 47 | 1 in 3.89 | 70.4% | $500K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $1,000,000 Cash Stacks | 45 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.8% |
| $250,000 HOLIDAY CA$H (this game) | 31 | 1 in 3.67 | 68.5% | $250K · 2 | 0.0% |
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.