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Active$1,000,000 Cashword · $20 · Ohio Lottery

$1,000,000 Cashword: Decent value. A $20 ticket pays back $15.74 on average.

▲ +1.8 pts vs launch#5 of 13 · $20 OH gamesUpdated Jun 15, 2026

$1,000,000 Cashword is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Ohio state lottery. Its current expected value is 78.7%, up 1.8 percentage points from the launch value of 76.9%. 3 of the original 4 $40K/YR FOR 25 YRS top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 49% of the 4.0M printed tickets have been sold.

78.7%
expected return
1 in 3.2
odds of any win
3 of 4
$1M jackpots left
49%
claimed · 1.9M of 4M printed
Odds, in plain terms

If you bought 100 tickets today

Based on the 645,961 winning tickets still unclaimed.

19 win more than $20
$25 – $400, an actual profit
12 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
69 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 527 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map

Where the $15.74 comes from

The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.

Small wins $20 – $750
$14.16 · 70.8% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $50K
$0.12 · 0.6% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$1.46 · 7.3% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
71.4%
Just 3 tickets out of 2.1M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $750 wins
645,880 winning tickets remain in this range: 90% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress

49% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there

Counting every ticket since launch, Nov 2025.

4M
tickets printed
1.9M
tickets claimed · 49%
2.1M
still out there
Tickets claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
75%
Tickets left
51%
75% of top prizes remain with only 51% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Ohio Lottery
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Rank vs $20 OH peers
#5 of 13
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
1
$1,000,000 Cash Is King
107.0%
2
Set For Life
99.8%
3
$2,000,000 Cash Blast
85.8%
4
$1,000,000 Stacked
80.5%
5
$1,000,000 Cashword
78.7%
6
$1,000,000 Holiday Wish
78.2%
7
$1,000,000 Cash Payout
77.8%
8
$300 Million Diamond Dazzler
77.1%
9
$1,000 Tax Free
75.5%
10
$2,000,000 Extreme Cash
69.3%
Figures from Ohio Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 15, 2026.
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