$500,000 HOLIDAY CA$H costs $10 a ticket from the Florida Lottery. The Florida Lottery stops selling it on October 23, 2026. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,228,608 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,677,945. On average it pays back about $0.75 per $1, $0.02 less than the median $10 game in Florida. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 11% of prizes remain.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.7M at launch, about 1 in 1.2M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Low inventory: most of this game's prizes have already been claimed.
- Each $1 spent here returns about $0.75 on average, comfortably above the typical scratch-off.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 2,674,200 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 120,189 | 89 | 9 | 10% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 30,047 | 356 | 32 | 9% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 5,022 | 2,130 | 233 | 11% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,200 | 8,912 | 845 | 9% |
| $250 | 1 in 1,195 | 8,951 | 858 | 10% |
| $100 | 1 in 60 | 178,389 | 16,731 | 9% |
| $50 | 1 in 60 | 178,193 | 17,350 | 10% |
| $40 | 1 in 240 | 44,572 | 4,934 | 11% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 713,120 | 82,930 | 12% |
| $15 | 1 in 12 | 891,348 | 96,371 | 11% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 1,069,826 | 134,795 | 13% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $500,000 top prize left on March 6, when our records for it began, is 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 $10 games (0.6% 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
- Florida
- Game Number
- 1612
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 10/27/2025
- Payout %
- 75.1%
- 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 | 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% |
| $500,000 HOLIDAY CA$H (this game) | 48 | 1 in 3.46 | 75.1% | $500K · 1 | 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.