The Virginia Lottery sells Cash in a Flash as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $100,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 691,288 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,020,172. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.83 beat the 1 in 4.19 typical of Virginia's $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.0M at launch, about 1 in 691K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $100,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Low inventory: most of this game's prizes have already been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.70 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $5,000 | 12 | 2 | 17% |
| $2,500 | 54 | 16 | 30% |
| $500 | 1,267 | 257 | 20% |
| $200 | 2,540 | 563 | 22% |
| $100 | 10,235 | 2,311 | 23% |
| $50 | 20,383 | 4,456 | 22% |
| $25 | 38,287 | 8,587 | 22% |
| $20 | 76,470 | 16,232 | 21% |
| $10 | 267,593 | 59,151 | 22% |
| $5 | 382,246 | 88,917 | 23% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, 2 $100,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on April 13.
- April 13, 20261 claimed · 1 left
- March 13, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.7% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for Virginia's $5 games (1% 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
- 2380
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 2/3/2026
- Payout %
- 70.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Virginia
All 22 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BINGO | 75 | 1 in 3.53 | 68.5% | $100K · 3 | 0.9% |
| BANK BUSTER | 65 | 1 in 4.04 | 68.0% | $100K · 3 | - |
| Silver 7s | 61 | 1 in 4.31 | 70.5% | $178K · 3 | 5.9% |
| PAWFECT PAYDAY | 51 | 1 in 4.24 | 69.9% | $125K · 1 | 1.9% |
| 5 TIMES LUCKY | 49 | 1 in 4.16 | 68.5% | $100K · 2 | 1.1% |
| BONUS SPIN CROSSWORD | 47 | 1 in 3.83 | 69.1% | $100K · 2 | 1.0% |
| Double The Money | 47 | 1 in 4.91 | 69.3% | $100K · 2 | 3.0% |
| Cash Vault | 46 | 1 in 3.82 | 70.3% | $150K · 1 | 0.4% |
| 10X The Money | 45 | 1 in 4.48 | 68.5% | $100K · 3 | 1.5% |
| Cash in a Flash (this game) | 45 | 1 in 3.83 | 70.3% | $100K · 1 | 0.7% |
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.