🎁 What $2.5M buys in the United States

7 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $2.5M. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.

What $2.5M covers

The numbers behind it

• 🎟️ $2.5M is 250,000 times the price of a $10 ticket.
• ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 1,078,463 tickets on $120,000,000 Payout, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
• 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $32M to win $2.5M -- which is the whole point of the odds.

Tickets with a $2.5M top prize

Ticket	Price	Tickets per top prize	Top prizes left
$2,500,000 MERRY & BRIGHT #462 · Massachusetts	$10	1 in 3,360,913	None left
$2,500,000 CASH MULTIPLIER #1800 · Georgia	$20	1 in 1,219,086	None left
MILLIONAIRE JUMBO BUCKS #1888 · Georgia	$20	1 in 1,617,513	1 left
Magnificent Jumbo Bucks #1628 · South Carolina	$20	1 in 1,747,584	1 left
Magnificent Jumbo Bucks #1683 · South Carolina	$20	1 in 1,753,169	7 left
$120,000,000 Payout #1768 · Pennsylvania	$30	1 in 1,078,463	3 left
Lucky 7 Multiplier #2771 · Texas	$50	1 in 1,152,871	4 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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