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Decent valueActiveMoney Blitz · $20 · Virginia Lottery
Money Blitz: Decent value. A $20 ticket pays back $15.39 on average.
▼ -1.5 pts vs launch#8 of 13 · $20 VA games
▼ -1.5 pts vs launch#8 of 13 · $20 VA games
Money Blitz is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Virginia state lottery. Its current expected value is 77.0%, down 1.5 percentage points from the launch value of 78.5%. 1 of the original 3 $2,000,000* top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 61% of the 3.3M printed tickets have been sold.
77.0%
expected return
1 in 3.29
odds of any win
1 of 3
$2M jackpots left
61%
claimed · 2M of 3.3M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 396,205 winning tickets still unclaimed.
17 win more than $20
$40 – $300, an actual profit
14 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 2,086 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $15.39 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $20 – $500
$13.74 · 68.7% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $20K
$0.12 · 0.6% of price
Jackpots $2M+
$1.53 · 7.7% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
69.3%
Just 1 ticket out of 1.3M carry the $2M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
396,144 winning tickets remain in this range: 89% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
61% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Oct 2022.
3.3M
tickets printed
2M
tickets claimed · 61%
1.3M
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
39%
33% of top prizes remain with 39% 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
#8 of 13
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Virginia Lottery published claim data.
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