THE PRICE IS RIGHT™ — $5 Virginia scratch-off ticket
VA · #2174 · $5

THE PRICE IS RIGHT™

Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.67

USA percentile

51th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

1

$200,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT™ is a $5 scratch-off game from the Virginia lottery (game #2174). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $200,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.27. Our models put its expected value at 0.67 per dollar, returning about $0.67 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 14 of 20 $5 games on sale in Virginia.

THE THESIS

At 0.67 EV/$, this game ranks 14 of 20 same-price games on sale in Virginia (median 0.68).

  1. 1.33% of $200,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 51st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$200K
1/3
33%
$10K
2/9
$500
256/990
$200
388/1.5K
$100
3.7K/14.4K
$50
19.4K/75.3K
$25
19.8K/74.6K
$20
39.3K/149.4K
$15
39.8K/149.5K
$10
100.2K/373.6K
$5
156.4K/560.1K

Total unclaimed prize value: $5.43M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 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 · 51th
USA: 51th percentileVA: 41th 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 · +18%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 18% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — VA field

148 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.651.302.50break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

2 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

THE PRICE IS RIGHT™: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 3 $200,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 379,273 of 1,399,490 prizes (27%) remain; the thinnest level is $10,000, with 22% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.36 on average (0.67 per dollar), which ranks 14 of 20 $5 games on sale in Virginia, below the $5 median of 0.68. Among every Virginia game with a computable value it is 65 of 111; nationally it sits in the 51th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 3,495 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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