$5,000 A Week For Life costs $10 a ticket from the Florida Lottery. On average it pays back about $0.74 per $1, $0.03 less than the median $10 game in Florida. The $3,897,000 top prize is an annuity: $5,000 a week for life ($3,897,000 cash option).
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Late in this game's life: the remaining prize pool is small.
- You get back about $0.74 per $1 on average, which is normal for this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,897,000 ($5,000 a week for life ($3,897,000 cash option)) | 1 in 5,468,865 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $20,000 | 1 in 437,509 | 50 | 13 | 26% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 104,169 | 210 | 47 | 22% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 15,004 | 1,458 | 346 | 24% |
| $500 | 1 in 800 | 27,351 | 6,145 | 22% |
| $200 | 1 in 601 | 36,417 | 8,198 | 23% |
| $100 | 1 in 120 | 182,187 | 41,219 | 23% |
| $50 | 1 in 120 | 182,316 | 41,041 | 23% |
| $30 | 1 in 60 | 364,519 | 84,042 | 23% |
| $25 | 1 in 60 | 364,297 | 83,986 | 23% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 1,458,278 | 340,956 | 23% |
| $15 | 1 in 15 | 1,458,432 | 349,045 | 24% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 2,552,001 | 613,266 | 24% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $3,897,000 top prize left on August 8, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Florida's $10 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
- 1601
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 7/1/2025
- Payout %
- 74.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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All 14 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000,000 Spectacular | 92 | 1 in 3.38 | 78.5% | $2M · 6 | 5.4% |
| CA$H IN HAND | 78 | 1 in 3.47 | 76.8% | $2M · 3 | 2.2% |
| JUMBO BUCKS | 74 | 1 in 3.50 | 76.5% | $2M · 3 | 1.3% |
| 100X THE CASH | 68 | 1 in 3.40 | 76.5% | $2M · 3 | 0.7% |
| DOUBLE DIAMOND CASHWORD | 61 | 1 in 3.24 | 73.8% | $2M · 2 | 0.6% |
| $2,000,000 Fortune | 54 | 1 in 3.44 | 76.2% | $2M · 1 | 0.9% |
| $5,000 A Week For Life (this game) | 51 | 1 in 3.30 | 74.4% | $3.9M · 1 | 0.2% |
| Ultimate VIP Ca$hword | 51 | 1 in 3.37 | 77.6% | $2M · 0 | 0.2% |
| Scorching Hot 7s | 49 | 1 in 3.39 | 76.5% | $2M · 1 | 0.0% |
| MONOPOLY™ SECRET VAULT (Game #1568) | 49 | 1 in 3.41 | 75.5% | $2M · 0 | 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.