VIP Cashword costs $10 a ticket from the Michigan Lottery. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 993,822 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,331,306. No $10 ticket in Michigan has better overall odds: 1 in 3.47, against 26 others at that price. On average it pays back about $0.75 per $1, $0.02 less than the median $10 game in Michigan. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 14% of prizes remain.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.3M at launch, about 1 in 994K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
- $0.75 back per dollar puts this game's return ahead of the pack.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 5Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $1,000 | 48 | 10 | 21% |
| $200 | 1,385 | 172 | 12% |
| $100 | 70,157 | 8,599 | 12% |
| $75 | 17,558 | 2,161 | 12% |
| $50 | 125,571 | 15,685 | 12% |
| $40 | 152,176 | 18,904 | 12% |
| $30 | 306,647 | 39,405 | 13% |
| $20 | 758,499 | 103,221 | 14% |
| $10 | 583,494 | 98,246 | 17% |
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% 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
- 0668
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 10/1/2024
- Payout %
- 75.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/5/2026
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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% |
| VIP Cashword (this game) | 49 | 1 in 3.47 | 75.4% | $500K · 1 | 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.