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🏆 $250K top prize claimed on California's Cash Crush scratch-off

6 of 14 top prizes remain on the $5 game, according to the lottery's published data.

· California

The California lottery's own prizes-remaining data shows a top prize of $250K claimed on Cash Crush, a $5 scratch-off. 6 of the 14 printed now remain.

The change appeared in the published data on September 30, 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 Cash Crush are 1 in 4.53. They were fixed at printing and describe the whole run, including every prize already claimed.

Cash Crush today

PrizePrintedLeft now
$250K145
$10K295
$1K1416342
$50065501477
$100427299847
$508538120224

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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.