LION'S SHAREWest Virginia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The West Virginia Lottery sells LION'S SHARE as a $10 ticket. By our estimate the $50,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 145,406 per ticket, down from 1 in 177,595. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 177,595 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 178K at launch, about 1 in 145K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $50,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Fresh prize pool: most of this game's prizes are still on the table.
- You get back about $0.73 per $1 on average, which is normal for this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | 1 in 170,000 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 51,000 | 10 | 5 | 50% |
| $500 | 1 in 2,914 | 175 | 96 | 55% |
| $100 | 1 in 71 | 7,161 | 3,847 | 54% |
| $50 | 1 in 32 | 15,995 | 8,566 | 54% |
| $30 | 1 in 24 | 21,328 | 11,469 | 54% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 34,692 | 18,891 | 54% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 58,663 | 32,464 | 55% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $50,000 top prizes left on May 21, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for West Virginia's $10 games (1.4% 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
- West Virginia
- Game Number
- 1255
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 4/28/2026
- Payout %
- 73.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $10 ticket in West Virginia
All 11 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RETRO-BLACK-DUCK-ELECTRIC KENO | 89 | 1 in 3.91 | 73.5% | $75K · 3 | 1.2% |
| CHERRIES-GEMS-GREEN-ELECTRIC ST | 82 | 1 in 3.70 | 73.2% | $50K · 3 | 1.0% |
| BRINGING SIX BACK | 74 | 1 in 4.01 | 73.3% | $60K · 2 | 1.8% |
| THE CASH GAME - GO BIG MONEY | 72 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.6% | $50K · 2 | 1.5% |
| LION'S SHARE (this game) | 70 | 1 in 3.86 | 73.0% | $50K · 2 | 1.2% |
| DRAGON BLAST - UNDERWATER KENO | 68 | 1 in 3.91 | 73.4% | $75K · 2 | 0.1% |
| LUCKY WITCH-LUCKY ELF | 61 | 1 in 5.36 | 73.3% | $5K · 5 | 4.5% |
| CELEBRATE 40 10X | 60 | 1 in 3.94 | 71.6% | $75K · 2 | 1.0% |
| DOGGIE-POOL-CAT-CASH | 57 | 1 in 4.08 | 69.5% | $500 · 1,837 | 0.4% |
| LADY LUCK | 47 | 1 in 5.65 | 70.6% | $5K · 20 | 0.1% |
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.