GOING BANANAS costs $1 a ticket from the Virginia Lottery. By our estimate the $1,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 160,686 per ticket, down from 1 in 585,615. 50% of its winning tickets pay $1 or less, no more than the ticket cost. With a ValueScore of 14/100 (Poor), it is 11th of the 13 active $1 games in Virginia.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 586K at launch, about 1 in 161K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Prizes hit less often here, roughly 20% per ticket (1 in 4.98).
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| $500 | 49 | 4 | 8% |
| $200 | 198 | 20 | 10% |
| $100 | 245 | 54 | 22% |
| $50 | 1,972 | 319 | 16% |
| $20 | 14,638 | 2,462 | 17% |
| $10 | 29,277 | 5,105 | 17% |
| $5 | 73,189 | 13,699 | 19% |
| $2 | 175,634 | 37,449 | 21% |
| $1 | 292,760 | 69,949 | 24% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $1,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are 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 Virginia's $1 games (1.3% 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
- 2353
- Ticket Price
- $1
- Start Date
- 7/1/2025
- Payout %
- 61.1%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $1 ticket in Virginia
All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2X The Money | 46 | 1 in 4.70 | 61.4% | $4K · 6 | 0.3% |
| Blackjack | 41 | 1 in 4.69 | 61.0% | $1K · 53 | 0.6% |
| Bronze 7s | 38 | 1 in 4.52 | 63.0% | $3K · 3 | 8.4% |
| Fast Cash | 25 | 1 in 4.74 | 62.4% | $2K · 1 | 2.7% |
| 2X The Money (Game #2376) | 23 | 1 in 4.70 | 61.4% | $4K · 3 | 1.3% |
| Lucky Gems | 22 | 1 in 4.66 | 62.7% | $2K · 0 | 0.6% |
| Black Cherry Doubler | 22 | 1 in 4.66 | 61.3% | $2K · 1 | 0.3% |
| Lucky Stars | 18 | 1 in 4.74 | 61.5% | $3K · 1 | 0.0% |
| $50 JAMBOREE | 18 | 1 in 4.97 | 62.5% | $50 · 1,137 | 0.0% |
| GOING BANANAS (this game) | 14 | 1 in 4.98 | 61.1% | $1K · 4 | 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.