$500,000 CashwordOhio Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The Ohio Lottery sells $500,000 Cashword as a $10 ticket. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 63,529 tickets. It pays back about $0.73 per $1 on average, in line with Ohio's other $10 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.0M at launch, about 1 in 881K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Frequent winners: roughly a 27% shot at a prize on each ticket (1 in 3.69), ahead of most games.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 26Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $10,000 | 60 | 24 | 40% |
| $1,000 | 1,525 | 641 | 42% |
| $500 | 2,043 | 850 | 42% |
| $200 | 10,183 | 4,386 | 43% |
| $100 | 30,548 | 13,091 | 43% |
| $50 | 81,350 | 34,587 | 43% |
| $30 | 81,350 | 34,917 | 43% |
| $20 | 406,797 | 177,820 | 44% |
| $10 | 488,006 | 211,201 | 43% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since June 8, when our records for it began, 2 $500,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on October 2.
- October 2, 20261 claimed · 2 left
- August 3, 20261 claimed · 3 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 2.8% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for Ohio's $10 games (0.8% 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
- Ohio
- Game Number
- 1118
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 5/28/2026
- Payout %
- 73.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/26/2026
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Every $10 ticket in Ohio
All 21 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingo X50 | 80 | 1 in 3.21 | 72.8% | $500K · 3 | 0.8% |
| Holiday 50X the Money | 77 | 1 in 3.41 | 72.8% | $500K · 3 | - |
| Casino Cash | 73 | 1 in 3.72 | 72.9% | $500K · 4 | 2.9% |
| Instant Jackpot | 68 | 1 in 3.87 | 74.9% | $500K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $1,000,000 Black Titanium | 64 | 1 in 3.54 | 71.8% | $1M · 3 | 2.2% |
| $500,000 Cashword (this game) | 62 | 1 in 3.69 | 73.2% | $500K · 2 | 2.8% |
| Cross Match Bingo | 62 | 1 in 3.42 | 72.7% | $500K · 3 | 0.9% |
| Money, Money, Money | 60 | 1 in 3.88 | 73.3% | $500K · 4 | 0.8% |
| Set For Life (Game #1072) | 55 | 1 in 3.63 | 73.4% | $2.4M · 1 | 0.8% |
| Mystery Multiplier | 52 | 1 in 3.06 | 73.3% | $300K · 0 | 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.