Big Bank Payday — $50 Virginia scratch-off ticket
VA · #2413 · $50

Big Bank Payday

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.76

USA percentile

86th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

3

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Big Bank Payday is a $50 scratch-off game from the Virginia (game #2413). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.99. Our models put its expected value at 0.76 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.76 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.76 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 86th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$500K
3/3
100%
$50K
3/4
$2K
8/10
$500
249/359
$200
934/1.3K
$100
11.2K/15.9K
$50
37.6K/53.0K
$30
14.2K/19.9K
$20
106.2K/149.1K
$10
114.1K/159.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $8.67M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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/$
VA median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 86th
USA: 86th percentileVA: 77th 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 · -6%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — VA field

136 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.400.801.45break-even · 1.00 EV/$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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