VA · #2198 · $30

Bonanza Bucks

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.78

USA percentile

90th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

12

$50,000 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.

Bonanza Bucks is a $30 scratch-off game from the Virginia (game #2198). As of the most recent daily scan, 12 top prizes of $50 remain unclaimed, as published by the Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.87. Our models put its expected value at 0.78 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.78 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.78 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.30% of $50,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 90th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$50K
12/40
30%
$5K
26/80
$2K
28/80
$600
550/2.0K
$500
2.8K/10.2K
$300
2.2K/8.1K
$200
8.3K/30.6K
$100
41.3K/153.0K
$75
33.2K/122.3K
$50
82.9K/305.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $15.59M — 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/$
VA median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 90th
USA: 90th percentileVA: 83th 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 · +9%

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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