Big Money Pay Day is one of the Michigan Lottery's $20 games. Our estimate for the $2,000,000 prize has slipped to about 1 in 2,518,261 per ticket, from 1 in 2,140,699 at launch. At launch, about 1 in 377,770 tickets carried a prize of $10,000 or more.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 2.1M at launch, about 1 in 2.5M now. The $2,000,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- The prize pool gives back $0.78 of every $1, better than most games manage.
- The larger prizes are well stocked, with plenty of top and mid-tier winners still out there.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000,000 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $10,000 | 14 | 12 | 86% |
| $2,000 | 213 | 182 | 85% |
| $500 | 1,772 | 1,368 | 77% |
| $300 | 3,199 | 2,503 | 78% |
| $200 | 65,030 | 50,870 | 78% |
| $100 | 406,204 | 317,755 | 78% |
| $50 | 320,833 | 251,517 | 78% |
| $30 | 320,739 | 251,851 | 79% |
| $20 | 641,472 | 503,809 | 79% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on July 9, one $2,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on October 2.
- October 2, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about twice the average for Michigan's $20 games (0.4% 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
- Michigan
- Game Number
- 0759
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 7/7/2026
- Payout %
- 78.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $20 ticket in Michigan
All 17 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2 Million Royale | 88 | 1 in 3.57 | 78.8% | $2M · 3 | 1.4% |
| Triple Diamond Payout | 84 | 1 in 3.72 | 78.8% | $2M · 3 | 1.8% |
| Big Money Pay Day (this game) | 81 | 1 in 3.65 | 78.3% | $2M · 2 | 1.0% |
| $2,000,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier | 80 | 1 in 3.73 | 78.6% | $2M · 2 | 0.2% |
| $2,000,000 Lucky | 80 | 1 in 3.40 | 78.5% | $2M · 2 | 0.1% |
| $2,000,000 Mega Multiplier | 78 | 1 in 3.47 | 78.6% | $2M · 2 | 0.0% |
| Jackson | 75 | 1 in 3.49 | 78.4% | $2M · 1 | 0.0% |
| Legendary Wild Time | 73 | 1 in 3.26 | 78.5% | $2M · 2 | 0.6% |
| $2,000,000 Cash Multiplier | 69 | 1 in 3.49 | 78.6% | $2M · 2 | 0.0% |
| Ace of Spades | 69 | 1 in 3.57 | 78.4% | $2M · 2 | 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.