THE BIG $5 TICKETGeorgia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
THE BIG $5 TICKET is a $5 ticket from the Georgia Lottery. Its top prizes are holding up better than the rest of the game: 3 of 3 $400,000 prizes remain, while only 57% of all prizes are left. 51% of its winning tickets pay $5 or less, no more than the ticket cost. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.33 beat the 1 in 3.62 typical of Georgia's $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.6M at launch, about 1 in 914K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $400,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Little of the prize pool has been drained so far.
- At 1 in 3.33 overall odds, prizes land more often than in most games.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $400,000 | 1 in 1,616,788 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,811 | 2,678 | 1,471 | 55% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,089 | 4,453 | 2,448 | 55% |
| $75 | 1 in 914 | 5,307 | 2,943 | 55% |
| $50 | 1 in 160 | 30,350 | 17,074 | 56% |
| $30 | 1 in 140 | 34,557 | 18,913 | 55% |
| $25 | 1 in 120 | 40,440 | 22,605 | 56% |
| $20 | 1 in 57 | 84,962 | 47,142 | 55% |
| $15 | 1 in 30 | 161,792 | 90,001 | 56% |
| $10 | 1 in 30 | 161,714 | 90,470 | 56% |
| $7 | 1 in 27 | 182,055 | 102,728 | 56% |
| $5 Free ticket | 1 in 10 | 485,352 | 279,496 | 58% |
| $5 | 1 in 18 | 262,903 | 148,563 | 57% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 3 $400,000 top prizes left at launch on September 15 are still unclaimed.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| September 15 | Launched | 3 of 3 |
| November 7 | Latest count, none claimed | 3 of 3 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 4.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 20 times the average for Georgia's $5 games (0.2% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #9 best seller of the 187 Georgia tickets we can rank, at about 210,000 tickets 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
- Georgia
- Game Number
- 1866
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 9/15/2026
- Payout %
- 73.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Georgia
All 54 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holiday $500s | 67 | 1 in 3.75 | 72.7% | $500 · 7,004 of 8,692 | 6.9% |
| THE BIG $5 TICKET (this game) | 64 | 1 in 3.33 | 73.0% | $400K · 3 of 3 | 4.4% |
| Lucky ROLL | 54 | 1 in 3.42 | 72.8% | $400K · 2 of 4 | 0.3% |
| LUCKY 7s | 54 | 1 in 2.94 | 72.6% | $478K · 2 of 3 | 1.6% |
| $5 BIG GEORGIA RAFFLE | 52 | 1 in 3.59 | 73.0% | $400K · 2 of 3 | 0.0% |
| BULLDOG BUCKS | 50 | 1 in 3.49 | 72.8% | $300K · 1 of 3 | 3.2% |
| 25Xtra | 50 | 1 in 3.40 | 72.5% | $500K · 1 of 3 | 2.3% |
| POWER 5s (Game #1664) | 47 | 1 in 3.43 | 74.2% | $500K · 1 of 3 | 0.0% |
| $500,000 JUMBO CASH | 47 | 1 in 3.24 | 73.9% | $500K · 1 of 3 | 0.0% |
| 5 SPOT | 44 | 1 in 3.67 | 72.8% | $500K · 1 of 3 | 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.