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Decent valueActiveThe BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash · $20 · Virginia Lottery
The BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash: Decent value. A $20 ticket pays back $15.64 on average.
▼ -1.8 pts vs launch#7 of 13 · $20 VA games
▼ -1.8 pts vs launch#7 of 13 · $20 VA games
The BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Virginia state lottery. Its current expected value is 78.2%, down 1.8 percentage points from the launch value of 80.0%. 1 of the original 3 $1,000,000* top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 59% of the 2.1M printed tickets have been sold.
78.2%
expected return
1 in 2.93
odds of any win
1 of 3
$1M jackpots left
59%
claimed · 1.2M of 2.1M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 295,686 winning tickets still unclaimed.
24 win more than $20
$25 – $250, an actual profit
10 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
66 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 662 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $15.64 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $20 – $500
$14.34 · 71.7% of price
Mid prizes $5K – $50K
$0.14 · 0.7% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$1.15 · 5.8% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
72.4%
Just 1 ticket out of 866k carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
295,678 winning tickets remain in this range: 92% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
59% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Nov 2025.
2.1M
tickets printed
1.2M
tickets claimed · 59%
866k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
33%
Tickets left
41%
33% of top prizes remain with 41% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Virginia Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $20 VA peers
#7 of 13
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
1
50X The Money
131.8%
2
LIFE OF LUXURY
94.6%
3
Platinum 7s
88.3%
4
$100,000 A YEAR
84.9%
5
Payday Tripler
81.5%
6
Supreme Riches
78.8%
7
The BIG Ticket: The Perfect Gift/Cold Hard Cash
78.2%
8
Money Blitz
76.9%
9
Loaded with $2,000s
76.4%
10
Cash Blast
75.5%
Figures from Virginia Lottery published claim data.
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