The Virginia Lottery sells The BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash as a $20 ticket. Its overall odds of 1 in 2.93 beat the 1 in 3.44 typical of Virginia's $20 games. The $1,000,000 top prize is an annuity: $33,333/yr for 30 yrs or $476,000 cash.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 701K at launch, about 1 in 848K now. The $1,000,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Strong expected value of $0.76 per $1: a bigger slice of ticket sales is still sitting in the prize pool than usual.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 ($33,333/yr for 30 yrs or $476,000 cash) | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $50,000 | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| $5,000 | 17 | 5 | 29% |
| $500 | 3,151 | 1,272 | 40% |
| $250 | 9,595 | 3,907 | 41% |
| $100 | 73,671 | 29,136 | 40% |
| $50 | 105,198 | 42,048 | 40% |
| $40 | 105,198 | 42,301 | 40% |
| $25 | 210,396 | 85,301 | 41% |
| $20 | 210,396 | 85,515 | 41% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $1,000,000 top prize left on March 6, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Virginia's $20 games (1.6% 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
- 2373
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 11/4/2025
- Payout %
- 76.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $20 ticket in Virginia
All 11 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50X THE MONEY | 93 | 1 in 3.03 | 76.1% | $3M · 3 | - |
| Platinum 7s | 80 | 1 in 3.48 | 75.5% | $2M · 2 | 5.1% |
| The BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash (this game) | 72 | 1 in 2.93 | 76.2% | $1M · 1 | 0.1% |
| Loaded with $2,000s | 68 | 1 in 3.26 | 75.3% | $2K · 1,528 | 2.4% |
| LIFE OF LUXURY | 65 | 1 in 3.43 | 74.8% | $1M · 2 | 1.6% |
| $100,000 A YEAR | 62 | 1 in 2.91 | 74.9% | $1M · 1 | 0.2% |
| 50X The Money | 62 | 1 in 3.03 | 76.4% | $3M · 2 | 1.1% |
| Payday Tripler | 58 | 1 in 3.44 | 74.6% | $1M · 1 | 0.5% |
| CASH BLAST | 55 | 1 in 9.34 | 75.4% | $600 · 2,924 | - |
| Ultimate 7s | 55 | 1 in 3.67 | 75.8% | $1M · 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.