🎁 What $2K buys in the United States
8 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $2K. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $2K covers
🏠 months of the average rent1.7
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $2K is 2,500 times the price of a $1 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 1,380 tickets on $2,500 FRENZY, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $28K to win $2K -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $2K top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bright Buck$#1795 · Pennsylvania | $1 | 1 in 560,599 | 10 left |
 GOLD FISH®#1783 · Pennsylvania | $1 | 1 in 419,887 | 10 left |
 HIT $50#561 · Missouri | $1 | 1 in 1,014,626 | 5 left |
 LOOSE CHANGE#553 · Missouri | $1 | 1 in 1,205,282 | 3 left |
 Perfect Match#1564 · Pennsylvania | $1 | — | None left |
 WIN FOR LIFE#1453 · New York | $2 | 1 in 1,413,345 | 1 left |
 $2,500 Festive Frenzy#1757 · Pennsylvania | $10 | 1 in 3,123 | 156 left |
 $2,500 FRENZY#1984 · Washington | $20 | 1 in 1,380 | 81 left |
Prizes shown are the advertised top prize before any tax, and the tickets pay smaller prizes far more often than the top one.
Other top prizes here
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Source
- 💼 US Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 — September 2026
- 🏠 US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 median gross rent (table B25064) — September 2026
- 🛒 BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, food at home — September 2026
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