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Decent valueActiveHit It Big! · $10 · Virginia Lottery
Hit It Big!: Decent value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.45 on average.
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#4 of 14 · $10 VA gamesUpdated Jun 12, 2026, 12:56 AM
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#4 of 14 · $10 VA gamesUpdated Jun 12, 2026, 12:56 AM
Hit It Big! is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the Virginia state lottery. Its current expected value is 74.5%, up 0.2 percentage points from the launch value of 74.3%. 1 of the original 3 $1,000,000* top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 70% of the 4.9M printed tickets have been sold.
74.5%
expected return
1 in 3.87
odds of any win
1 of 3
$1M jackpots left
70%
claimed · 3.4M of 4.9M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 379,807 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $10
$20 – $250, an actual profit
11 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
75 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 2,682 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.45 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.73 · 67.3% of price
Mid prizes $2K
$0.04 · 0.4% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.68 · 6.8% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
67.7%
Just 1 ticket out of 1.5M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
379,776 winning tickets remain in this range: 90% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
70% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Mar 2022.
4.9M
tickets printed
3.4M
tickets claimed · 70%
1.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
33%
Tickets left
30%
33% of top prizes remain with only 30% 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 $10 VA peers
#4 of 14
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Virginia Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 12, 2026, 12:56 AM.
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