Big Bank Payday
Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.69
USA percentile
61th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
1
$500,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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Big Bank Payday is a $50 scratch-off game from the Virginia lottery (game #2413). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.99. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 13 of 19 $50 games on sale in Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.69 EV/$, this game ranks 13 of 19 same-price games on sale in Virginia (median 0.73).
- 1.33% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 61st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
10 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $5.37M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,154 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — VA field
144 games · break-even highlighted2 other VA games 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Big Bank Payday: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 1 of the 3 $500,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 193,818 of 398,525 prizes (49%) remain; the thinnest level is $500,000, with 33% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $50 ticket returns about $34.7 on average (0.69 per dollar), which ranks 13 of 19 $50 games on sale in Virginia, below the $50 median of 0.73. Among every Virginia game with a computable value it is 48 of 107; nationally it sits in the 61th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 39,791 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Virginia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a VA game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.