VA · #2398 · $5

5 Times Lucky

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.69

USA percentile

57th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

2

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

5 Times Lucky is a $5 scratch-off game from the Virginia (game #2398). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.16. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.69 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.67% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 57th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$100K
2/3
67%
$10K
6/8
$2.5K
5/6
$500
527/1.0K
$100
5.8K/11.0K
$50
8.6K/16.4K
$25
60.3K/114.0K
$20
10.1K/19.0K
$15
20.2K/38.0K
$10
121.7K/227.9K
$5
164.8K/303.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $5.60M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active VA games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
YOU · 57th
USA: 57th percentileVA: 53th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · +7%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — VA field

132 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.350.701.29break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

1 other VA game above break-even at this time.

Top-prize claim cadence · the roll

Top-prize claim history is not published for this state.

States that report individual claim events (TX, NY, PA, FL, NC) will show a full timeline here. This game's state does not currently publish that data.

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