Chocolate CashNew Jersey Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Chocolate Cash is a $5 ticket from the New Jersey Lottery. At launch, about 1 in 38,660 tickets carried a prize of $1,000 or more. It pays back about $0.70 per $1 on average, in line with New Jersey's other $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.2M at launch, about 1 in 1.1M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $100,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.70 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- Middling prize quality: a fair number of the bigger prizes are still in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 1 in 1,235,745 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 123,575 | 40 | 21 | 53% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 58,845 | 84 | 39 | 46% |
| $500 | 1 in 5,426 | 911 | 376 | 41% |
| $100 | 1 in 235 | 21,018 | 8,913 | 42% |
| $50 | 1 in 100 | 49,484 | 20,980 | 42% |
| $25 | 1 in 100 | 49,332 | 20,980 | 43% |
| $20 | 1 in 24 | 205,932 | 88,023 | 43% |
| $10 | 1 in 11 | 453,132 | 196,083 | 43% |
| $5 | 1 in 15 | 329,583 | 145,859 | 44% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since April 6, when our records for it began, 2 $100,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on April 25.
- April 25, 20261 claimed · 2 left
- April 13, 20261 claimed · 3 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.6% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for New Jersey's $5 games (1.4% 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
- New Jersey
- Game Number
- 1970
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 4/1/2026
- Payout %
- 70.1%
- Data Source
- State lottery
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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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.