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🏆 $1M top prize claimed on California's $1 Million California Cash scratch-off

36 of 40 top prizes remain on the $40 game, according to the lottery's published data.

· California

The California lottery's own prizes-remaining data shows a top prize of $1M claimed on $1 Million California Cash, a $40 scratch-off. 36 of the 40 printed now remain.

The change appeared in the published data on October 21, 2026. Lotteries publish with a lag, so the prize itself may have been claimed a day or more earlier. The figures do not say who claimed it or where, and neither do we.

Overall odds on $1 Million California Cash are 1 in 2.32. They were fixed at printing and describe the whole run, including every prize already claimed.

$1 Million California Cash today

PrizePrintedLeft now
$1M4035
$50K2019
$10K508450
$2K24892252
$1K1522213628
$5003121827220

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What this does not say

That any ticket is a good buy. Every scratch game returns less than it takes in, with or without its top prize.