BIG BANK PAYDAY is a $10 ticket from the Virginia Lottery. Our estimate for the $500,000 prize has slipped to about 1 in 839,835 per ticket, from 1 in 530,038 at launch. At launch, about 1 in 227,159 tickets carried a prize of $10,000 or more.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 530K at launch, about 1 in 840K now. The $500,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Expected value of $0.73 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- You win something fairly often here, about 25% per ticket (1 in 3.99).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $50,000 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $2,000 | 10 | 7 | 70% |
| $500 | 359 | 193 | 54% |
| $200 | 1,329 | 670 | 50% |
| $100 | 15,880 | 8,260 | 52% |
| $50 | 52,968 | 27,685 | 52% |
| $30 | 19,889 | 10,453 | 53% |
| $20 | 149,064 | 78,422 | 53% |
| $10 | 159,019 | 84,792 | 53% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on August 3, 2 $500,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on September 17.
- September 17, 20261 claimed · 1 left
- September 2, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 3.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for Virginia's $10 games (0.9% 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
- Virginia
- Game Number
- 2413
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 8/4/2026
- Payout %
- 72.8%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $10 ticket in Virginia
All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold 7s | 74 | 1 in 3.90 | 72.9% | $578K · 2 | 4.1% |
| 20X THE MONEY | 69 | 1 in 3.65 | 71.7% | $1M · 3 | 0.9% |
| $500,000 Disco Dollars | 64 | 1 in 6.00 | 71.9% | $500K · 3 | - |
| BIG BANK PAYDAY (this game) | 63 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.8% | $500K · 1 | 3.1% |
| Crossword Spectacular | 61 | 1 in 3.69 | 72.3% | $300K · 2 | 1.3% |
| SIX FIGURES | 53 | 1 in 3.97 | 72.0% | $500K · 1 | 0.4% |
| BIG BILLS | 51 | 1 in 4.04 | 72.4% | $500K · 1 | 1.0% |
| Instant Cash | 48 | 1 in 5.25 | 73.3% | $500K · 1 | 1.6% |
| Power Payout Multiplier | 45 | 1 in 4.14 | 72.5% | $1M · 0 | 0.0% |
| CASH BLOWOUT | 44 | 1 in 9.35 | 72.1% | $500 · 2,394 | - |
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.