Illinois · Best ValueScore™ Scratch-Offs
Last updated September 4, 2026
Illinois's #1 scratch-off right now is $5,000,000 Jackpot with a ValueScore™ of 93/100. ValueScore™ combines expected value, prize quality, win frequency, and inventory health into a single 0 to 100 rating, updated daily.
Printed odds are set the day a game ships and never change, but the game itself does. Every week tickets sell and prizes get claimed, and the ticket can't tell you any of that. ValueScore™ re-scores every Illinois game from live prize data, so it knows when the top prizes are already gone from a game that still advertises great odds, and when a quiet game is sitting on all of its big prizes. Higher is better; details below the table.
| Rank | Game | Price | ValueScore™ | Overall Odds | Top Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $5,000,000 Jackpot | $30 | 93 | 1 in 3.64 | $5,000,000 |
| 2 | $3 Million Vault | $20 | 90 | 1 in 3.2 | $3,000,000 $150K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.8M cash |
| 3 | $2,000,000 Multiplier Bonanza | $20 | 86 | 1 in 3.88 | $2,000,000 |
| 4 | Sapphire 10s | $10 | 85 | 1 in 3.49 | $1,000,000 |
| 5 | $1,000,000 Crossword 50X | $25 | 84 | 1 in 2.96 | $1,000,000 |
| 6 | Double the Luck | $20 | 82 | 1 in 3.71 | $3,000,000 $150K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.8M cash |
| 7 | Liquid Assets | $10 | 78 | 1 in 3.85 | $1,000,000 |
| 8 | Royal Riches | $30 | 73 | 1 in 3.35 | $3,000,000 $150K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.8M cash |
| 9 | $250,000 Crossword 2026 | $10 | 71 | 1 in 3.69 | $250,000 |
| 10 | Big Time Blowout | $20 | 70 | 1 in 9.68 | $2,000 |
| 11 | 100X Xtra | $20 | 68 | 1 in 3.58 | $2,000,000 $100K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.2M cash |
| 12 | Millionaire Club | $50 | 68 | 1 in 4.2 | $1,000,000 $50,000/yr for 20 yrs or $600,000 cash |
| 13 | Money Match | $10 | 67 | 1 in 3.65 | $1,000,000 |
| 14 | Millionaire 7 | $10 | 66 | 1 in 3.59 | $1,000,000 $50,000/yr for 20 yrs or $600,000 cash |
| 15 | $10,000,000 Bankroll | $50 | 64 | 1 in 4.08 | $10,000,000 $500K/yr for 20 yrs or $6M cash |
| 16 | $1,000,000 Crossword 50X (Game #7639) | $25 | 63 | 1 in 2.97 | $1,000,000 |
| 17 | GALAXY BLAST ($5) | $5 | 61 | 1 in 3.99 | $555,555 |
| 18 | Blowout X | $30 | 60 | 1 in 6.91 | $3,000 |
| 19 | Bonus Word Crossword | $3 | 60 | 1 in 3.49 | $50,000 |
| 20 | Diamonds | $10 | 60 | 1 in 3.63 | $2,000,000 $100K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.2M cash |
| 21 | 50X Xtra | $10 | 59 | 1 in 3.64 | $600,000 |
| 22 | 2000000Celebration_Logo | $20 | 59 | 1 in 3.16 | $2,000,000 $100K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.2M cash |
| 23 | In the Green | $5 | 58 | 1 in 4.24 | $500,000 |
| 24 | $100,000 Crossword 2026 | $5 | 57 | 1 in 3.93 | $100,000 |
| 25 | $2,000,000 Maximum Money | $20 | 55 | 1 in 3.85 | $2,000,000 $100K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.2M cash |
| 26 | Gold Casino | $10 | 55 | 1 in 3.63 | $1,000,000 |
| 27 | 200X the Cash | $30 | 50 | 1 in 3.18 | $100,000 $150K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.8M cash |
| 28 | 25X Xtra | $5 | 47 | 1 in 4.28 | $500,000 |
| 29 | $40 Million Mega Bucks | $10 | 47 | 1 in 3.57 | $1,000,000 |
| 30 | Gold Rush Supreme | $10 | 46 | 1 in 3.81 | $100,000 |
| 31 | $2,000,000 Diamond Deluxe | $20 | 45 | 1 in 3.55 | $100,000 $100K/yr for 20 yrs or $1.2M cash |
| 32 | 7X Bingo Multiplier | $5 | 44 | 1 in 3.99 | $200,000 |
| 33 | Add It Up | $2 | 43 | 1 in 4.62 | $20,000 |
| 34 | 1,000,000 Ca$h Cha$er | $10 | 40 | 1 in 4.15 | $1,000,000 |
| 35 | Amazing Bonus Blowout | $10 | 39 | 1 in 9.49 | $500 |
| 36 | Onyx | $5 | 38 | 1 in 4.2 | $1,000,000 |
| 37 | $100,000,000 Ca$h Spectacular! | $10 | 38 | 1 in 3.49 | $500,000 |
| 38 | Loteria™ | $3 | 36 | 1 in 3.85 | $80,000 |
| 39 | $250,000 Crossword | $10 | 36 | 1 in 3.7 | $250,000 |
| 40 | $100,000 Crossword | $5 | 34 | 1 in 3.92 | $100,000 |
| 41 | Electric Cash | $5 | 34 | 1 in 4.28 | $400,000 |
| 42 | 10X Xtra | $2 | 33 | 1 in 4.45 | $50,000 |
| 43 | More Money | $5 | 32 | 1 in 4.33 | $400,000 |
| 44 | Power Up! Multiplier | $5 | 31 | 1 in 4.24 | $400,000 |
| 45 | Monopoly | $2 | 31 | 1 in 4.45 | $20,000 |
| 46 | Money Rush | $5 | 31 | 1 in 5.23 | $400,000 |
| 47 | King Crossword | $3 | 30 | 1 in 3.73 | $50,000 |
| 48 | Maximum Money Blowout | $20 | 30 | 1 in 9.6 | $2,000 |
| 49 | Loose Change Boost | $1 | 29 | 1 in 4.76 | $1,000 |
| 50 | 9s in a line logo | $5 | 28 | 1 in 4.44 | $299,999 |
| 51 | Emerald 7s | $5 | 27 | 1 in 4.31 | $400,000 |
| 52 | Emeralds | $1 | 27 | 1 in 4.97 | $50,000 |
| 53 | Cash Lines | $3 | 23 | 1 in 4.08 | $80,000 |
| 54 | 7-11-21® | $1 | 23 | 1 in 4.8 | $3,000 |
| 55 | 5X Xtra | $1 | 22 | 1 in 4.97 | $20,000 |
| 56 | In the Money | $5 | 19 | 1 in 4.99 | $400,000 |
| 57 | Super Cash Blowout | $5 | 19 | 1 in 5.73 | $200 |
| 58 | Rubies | $2 | 19 | 1 in 4.49 | $100,000 |
How ValueScore is built
Most people judge a scratch off by two numbers: the overall odds printed on the ticket, and maybe how many prizes are left. Both are easy to read, and both mislead on their own. Overall odds only tell you how often any prize hits, and most of those are break-even reprints. A ticket can advertise 1 in 3 and still be a bad buy once the prizes worth winning are gone. Remaining-prize countshave the opposite blind spot: “400 prizes left” means nothing without the price, the odds, and how many of the top prizes are actually still in the pool.
ValueScore reads all of it at once and rates what those two numbers can’t see on their own. It blends the four signals that actually decide whether a ticket is worth buying, which is why our top pick in Illinois often looks nothing like the game with the flashiest odds:
- Expected Value (weighted most heavily). Published per-ticket return across the full prize structure, not just the headline odds.
- Prize Quality. How much of the payout sits in prizes worth winning versus tiny break-even reprints.
- Win Frequency. Your probability of any prize per ticket.
- Inventory Health. Top prizes still unclaimed versus tickets remaining. This is the one the ticket can’t show you: a game with great printed odds whose jackpots are already gone. (Exact weighting is proprietary.)
Scores recompute after every successful Illinois scrape, so a game listed at the top last week may have moved. See the national ValueScore ranking for cross-state context.