🏆 $500K top prize claimed on California's JAWS scratch-off
11 of 20 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 $500K claimed on JAWS, a $5 scratch-off. 11 of the 20 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 JAWS are 1 in 3.81. They were fixed at printing and describe the whole run, including every prize already claimed.
JAWS today
| Prize | Printed | Left now |
|---|---|---|
| $500K | 20 | 9 |
| $10K | 40 | 14 |
| $1K | 405 | 168 |
| $500 | 6030 | 2428 |
| $100 | 60256 | 24082 |
| $50 | 96213 | 39189 |
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