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🏆 $250K top prize claimed on California's Holiday Delight scratch-off

9 of 10 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 Holiday Delight, a $5 scratch-off. 9 of the 10 printed now remain.

The change appeared in the published data on October 31, 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 Holiday Delight are 1 in 3.76. They were fixed at printing and describe the whole run, including every prize already claimed.

Holiday Delight today

PrizePrintedLeft now
$250K109
$10K2120
$1K916850
$50040773646
$1003066727412
$505602350054

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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.