RubiesIllinois Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Rubies costs $2 a ticket from the Illinois Lottery. By our estimate the $100,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,441,883 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,996,104. With a ValueScore of 20/100 (Below Avg), it is 5th of the 5 active $2 games in Illinois.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.0M at launch, about 1 in 1.4M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $100,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Wins are infrequent: about a 22% chance to win something per ticket (1 in 4.49), lower than most games.
- Most of the larger top and mid-tier prizes have already been won.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 1 in 1,995,800 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $3,000 | 1 in 199,580 | 30 | 3 | 10% |
| $500 | 1 in 66,527 | 90 | 17 | 19% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,834 | 3,265 | 692 | 21% |
| $50 | 1 in 319 | 18,750 | 3,862 | 21% |
| $25 | 1 in 175 | 34,243 | 7,076 | 21% |
| $20 | 1 in 150 | 39,943 | 8,484 | 21% |
| $10 | 1 in 55 | 109,726 | 24,818 | 23% |
| $6 | 1 in 75 | 79,832 | 18,126 | 23% |
| $5 | 1 in 60 | 99,768 | 23,499 | 24% |
| $4 | 1 in 15 | 409,094 | 97,371 | 24% |
| $2 | 1 in 11 | 538,956 | 137,183 | 25% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on March 6, 2 $100,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on April 25.
- April 25, 20261 claimed · 1 left
- April 23, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.8% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for Illinois's $2 games (1.6% 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
- Illinois
- Game Number
- 7648
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 3/3/2026
- Payout %
- 68.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $2 ticket in Illinois
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reindeer Riches | 50 | 1 in 4.27 | 68.3% | $50K · 3 | 2.6% |
| 10X Xtra | 29 | 1 in 4.45 | 67.9% | $50K · 3 | 0.6% |
| Monopoly | 29 | 1 in 4.45 | 67.3% | $20K · 3 | 0.3% |
| Add It Up | 27 | 1 in 4.62 | 68.0% | $20K · 1 | 4.1% |
| Rubies (this game) | 20 | 1 in 4.49 | 68.0% | $100K · 1 | 0.8% |
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.