Instant Cash
Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
73th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$500,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Instant Cash is a $10 scratch-off game from the Virginia lottery (game #2402). 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 5.25. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 9 of 12 $10 games on sale in Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 9 of 12 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 73rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $6.68M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 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
148 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
Instant Cash: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 3 $500,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 175,809 of 465,943 prizes (38%) remain; the thinnest level is $500,000, with 33% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.24 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 9 of 12 $10 games on sale in Virginia, below the $10 median of 0.73. Among every Virginia game with a computable value it is 36 of 111; nationally it sits in the 73th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 21,689 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 November 4, 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.