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$50,000 Star Cashword — $2 Massachusetts Scratch Ticket #414

Data captured · launched August 23, 2023

$50,000 Star Cashword (#414) is a $2 Massachusetts scratch ticket launched on August 23, 2023. As of October 25, 2026 it ranks #124 of 129 active games on current payout (49.4%, $0.99 expected back per ticket) and #24 of 26 $2 games, #99 on any-prize odds (1 in 5.58) and #31 on top-prize odds (1 in 416,347). Since launch the payout has fallen 23.6 points (73.0% at launch) and your chance of winning something has fallen 24.2% (1 in 4.23 at launch). 1 of 15 top prizes of $50,000 remain, and we estimate 416,347 tickets are still unsold (97.2% sold). Its current figures fail our plausibility check (the caution below), so whatever its place in the list, we do not count it among the best Massachusetts scratch tickets to buy. A caution on the current figures: the any-prize odds have moved from 1 in 4.23 to 1 in 5.58, further than a game's odds really move. Its prize tiers disagree about how many tickets are left (between 0.12 million and 1.44 million), usually because small prizes are claimed late, and the current odds and payout lean on that disagreement. The printed odds are the safer guide, and our summaries do not name this game the best of anything (how we estimate).

Current payout
49.4%
73.0% at launch
Expected value
$0.99
per $2 ticket
Any-prize odds
1 in 5.58
1 in 4.23 at launch
Cash odds
1 in 5.58
excludes free tickets
Profit odds
1 in 11.0
win more than $2
$600+ odds
1 in 13,431
claim-at-lottery prizes
Top prizes left
1 of 15
$50,000 each
Tickets remaining
2.8%
≈ 416,347 tickets

Last top prize claimed: August 8, 2025, 443 days ago.

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in $50,000 Star Cashword, with the odds printed at launch, the odds today given what is left, and how much of each tier is still unclaimed. To set its odds of $1,000 or more (or any other prize size) against every other Massachusetts game, see odds by prize size. Across all tiers, 74,619 of 3,573,270 prizes (2.1%) are still out there.

PrizeOdds at launchOdds now TotalClaimedRemaining% left
$50,000 1 in 1,008,000 1 in 416,347 15 14 1 6.7%
$1,000 1 in 48,000 1 in 13,878 315 285 30 9.5%
$500 1 in 14,400 1 in 32,027 1,050 1,037 13 1.2%
$200 1 in 3,600 1 in 4,526 4,200 4,108 92 2.2%
$100 1 in 1,469 1 in 2,124 10,290 10,094 196 1.9%
$50 1 in 514.3 1 in 1,742 29,400 29,161 239 0.8%
$20 1 in 62.5 1 in 213.1 241,920 239,966 1,954 0.8%
$10 1 in 50.0 1 in 153.5 302,400 299,688 2,712 0.9%
$5 1 in 41.7 1 in 88.0 362,880 358,151 4,729 1.3%
$4 1 in 13.6 1 in 15.0 1,108,800 1,081,002 27,798 2.5%
$2 1 in 10.0 1 in 11.3 1,512,000 1,475,145 36,855 2.4%
All prizes1 in 4.231 in 5.58 3,573,2703,498,651 74,6192.1%

How $50,000 Star Cashword has moved

46% 56% 66% Feb 2025Jul 2025Oct 2026
Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking $50,000 Star Cashword. 121 daily readings.

Recent claims of $1,000 and up

Derived from day-to-day changes in the official remaining-prize counts, so the date is when the lottery published the change.

$50,000 Star Cashword: common questions

How many $50,000 prizes are left in $50,000 Star Cashword?
1 of 15 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 416,347.
What are the odds of winning anything on $50,000 Star Cashword?
1 in 5.58 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.23 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 5.58, and the odds of winning more than the $2 ticket price are 1 in 11.0.
Is $50,000 Star Cashword worth buying?
Its current payout is 49.4% ($0.99 back per $2 ticket), rank #124 of 129 in Massachusetts. That figure fails our plausibility check (see the caution above), so read it as approximate and not as a reason to buy. The best $2 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is $100 STACKED (#495, $2) at 74.8%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many $50,000 Star Cashword tickets are left?
We estimate 416,347 of roughly 15,120,000 printed tickets are unsold (97.2% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did $50,000 Star Cashword launch and is it still on sale?
It launched on August 23, 2023. It is still on sale.

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