VA · #2353 · $1

Going Bananas!

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.54

USA percentile

6th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

4

$1,000 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.

Going Bananas! is a $1 scratch-off game from the Virginia (game #2353). As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $1 remain unclaimed, as published by the Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.98. Our models put its expected value at 0.54 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.54 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.54 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.80% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 6th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$1K
4/5
80%
$500
4/49
$200
20/198
$100
54/245
$50
321/2.0K
$20
2.5K/14.6K
$10
5.1K/29.3K
$5
13.8K/73.2K
$2
37.6K/175.6K
$1
70.3K/292.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $346,208 — 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 · 6th
USA: 6th percentileVA: 1th 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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