GOLD HARD CASH is a $5 ticket from the Virginia Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $100,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 839,954, from 1 in 1,059,371 at launch. On ValueScore it earns 28/100 (Below Avg), good for 21st out of 22 $5 tickets in Virginia. Its overall odds of 1 in 4.76 trail the 1 in 4.16 typical of Virginia's $5 games. None of its winning tickets pays $5 or less: every prize is worth more than the ticket.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.1M at launch, about 1 in 840K 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.
- Most of the larger top and mid-tier prizes have already been won.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $10,000 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $5,000 | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| $500 | 2,116 | 524 | 25% |
| $100 | 3,040 | 775 | 25% |
| $50 | 26,531 | 6,893 | 26% |
| $25 | 39,807 | 10,319 | 26% |
| $20 | 79,505 | 20,592 | 26% |
| $10 | 516,660 | 137,355 | 27% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $100,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on June 27.
- June 27, 20261 claimed · 1 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.5% 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
- 2383
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 1/6/2026
- Payout %
- 68.0%
- 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% |
| GOLD HARD CASH (this game) | 28 | 1 in 4.76 | 68.0% | $100K · 1 | 0.5% |
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.