Golden Key is a $10 ticket from the Michigan Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $1,000,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 1,724,585, from 1 in 2,104,765 at launch. At launch, about 1 in 263,096 tickets carried a prize of $10,000 or more.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.1M at launch, about 1 in 1.7M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- At $0.77 returned per $1 spent, this game pays back more than the typical scratch-off.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $10,000 | 21 | 14 | 67% |
| $2,000 | 107 | 66 | 62% |
| $500 | 1,064 | 573 | 54% |
| $200 | 2,122 | 1,155 | 54% |
| $100 | 138,629 | 74,887 | 54% |
| $50 | 157,951 | 85,547 | 54% |
| $30 | 177,615 | 96,144 | 54% |
| $20 | 526,660 | 287,017 | 54% |
| $10 | 631,656 | 348,162 | 55% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $1,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on March 29.
- March 29, 20261 claimed · 2 left
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 Michigan's $10 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
- 0720
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 9/26/2025
- Payout %
- 76.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $10 ticket in Michigan
All 27 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild $10 | 82 | 1 in 3.68 | 76.5% | $1M · 3 | - |
| Silver & Gold Cashword | 80 | 1 in 3.47 | 75.6% | $500K · 3 | 1.5% |
| Cash Train | 74 | 1 in 3.63 | 77.0% | $1M · 2 | 1.8% |
| Power Doubler | 73 | 1 in 3.84 | 76.7% | $1M · 3 | 0.9% |
| Bonus Multiplier | 73 | 1 in 3.85 | 76.5% | $1M · 2 | 1.3% |
| $1,000,000 Cash Spectacular | 70 | 1 in 3.68 | 76.6% | $1M · 2 | 0.6% |
| One Million Payday | 68 | 1 in 3.81 | 76.5% | $1M · 3 | 0.0% |
| Epic Wild Time | 67 | 1 in 3.48 | 76.5% | $1M · 2 | 0.4% |
| Ruby 7s | 67 | 1 in 3.84 | 76.6% | $1M · 2 | 1.3% |
| Golden Key (this game) | 64 | 1 in 3.86 | 76.5% | $1M · 2 | 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.