Instant Cash — $10 Virginia scratch-off ticket
VA · #2402 · $10

Instant Cash

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

68th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

1

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

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.

Instant Cash is a $10 scratch-off game from the Virginia (game #2402). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500 remains unclaimed, as published by the Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 5.25. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.33% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 68th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$500K
1/3
33%
$10K
2/5
$500
330/652
$200
1.6K/3.0K
$100
16.3K/32.6K
$50
40.9K/81.5K
$40
6.0K/11.9K
$30
46.1K/91.7K
$20
123.7K/244.5K

Total unclaimed prize value: $8.77M — 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 · 68th
USA: 68th percentileVA: 64th 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 · 0%

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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