Emerald Mine 9X is a $5 ticket from the Florida Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $500,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 1,602,996, from 1 in 2,264,572 at launch. Its expected return of $0.69 per $1 sits $0.03 below the typical $5 ticket in Florida. Only 7% of its prizes are still unclaimed. On ValueScore it earns 18/100 (Poor), good for 25th out of 26 $5 tickets in Florida.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.3M at launch, about 1 in 1.6M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- $0.69 returned per dollar is roughly what most scratch-offs pay right now.
- Win rate is typical, around 25% per ticket (1 in 4.00).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 2,263,026 | 10 | 1 | 10% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 411,459 | 55 | 8 | 15% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 224,062 | 101 | 5 | 5% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 11,930 | 1,897 | 143 | 8% |
| $500 | 1 in 3,021 | 7,490 | 450 | 6% |
| $250 | 1 in 2,006 | 11,282 | 707 | 6% |
| $100 | 1 in 240 | 94,384 | 6,325 | 7% |
| $50 | 1 in 238 | 95,162 | 7,381 | 8% |
| $40 | 1 in 238 | 95,214 | 5,554 | 6% |
| $30 | 1 in 300 | 75,376 | 4,430 | 6% |
| $20 | 1 in 60 | 377,171 | 32,106 | 9% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 2,640,197 | 170,868 | 6% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 2,263,092 | 172,771 | 8% |
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 0.1% 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
- 5055
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 12/4/2023
- Payout %
- 69.3%
- 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% |
| Emerald Mine 9X (this game) | 18 | 1 in 4.00 | 69.3% | $500K · 1 | 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.