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$500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 — $5 Massachusetts Scratch Ticket #356

Data captured · launched January 30, 2023

$500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 (#356) is a $5 Massachusetts scratch ticket launched on January 30, 2023. As of October 25, 2026 it ranks #128 of 129 active games on current payout (37.4%, $1.87 expected back per ticket) and #33 of 33 $5 games, #124 on any-prize odds (1 in 9.26) and #34 on top-prize odds (1 in 655,777). Since launch the payout has fallen 38.8 points (76.2% at launch) and your chance of winning something has fallen 55.1% (1 in 4.16 at launch). 1 of 4 top prizes of $500,000 remain, and we estimate 655,777 tickets are still unsold (95.7% 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 4.16 to 1 in 9.26, further than a game's odds really move. Its prize tiers disagree about how many tickets are left (between 0.10 million and 0.39 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
37.4%
76.2% at launch
Expected value
$1.87
per $5 ticket
Any-prize odds
1 in 9.26
1 in 4.16 at launch
Cash odds
1 in 9.26
excludes free tickets
Profit odds
1 in 43.5
win more than $5
$600+ odds
1 in 59,616
claim-at-lottery prizes
Top prizes left
1 of 4
$500,000 each
Tickets remaining
4.3%
≈ 655,777 tickets

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023, 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, 70,797 of 3,635,119 prizes (1.9%) are still out there.

PrizeOdds at launchOdds now TotalClaimedRemaining% left
$500,000 1 in 3,780,000 1 in 655,777 4 3 1 25.0%
$10,000 1 in 1,008,000 1 in 327,889 15 13 2 13.3%
$1,000 1 in 144,000 1 in 81,972 105 97 8 7.6%
$500 1 in 18,000 1 in 93,682 840 833 7 0.8%
$300 1 in 13,091 1 in 34,515 1,155 1,136 19 1.6%
$150 1 in 3,600 1 in 9,236 4,200 4,129 71 1.7%
$100 1 in 83.3 1 in 461.5 181,440 180,019 1,421 0.8%
$60 1 in 750.0 1 in 1,381 20,160 19,685 475 2.4%
$50 1 in 150.0 1 in 987.6 100,800 100,136 664 0.7%
$40 1 in 250.0 1 in 938.2 60,480 59,781 699 1.2%
$25 1 in 150.0 1 in 665.1 100,800 99,814 986 1.0%
$20 1 in 39.5 1 in 187.4 383,040 379,540 3,500 0.9%
$10 1 in 25.0 1 in 90.6 604,800 597,565 7,235 1.2%
$5 1 in 6.94 1 in 11.8 2,177,280 2,121,571 55,709 2.6%
All prizes1 in 4.161 in 9.26 3,635,1193,564,322 70,7971.9%

How $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 has moved

36% 53% 70% Feb 2025Jul 2025Oct 2026
Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023. 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.

$500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023: common questions

How many $500,000 prizes are left in $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023?
1 of 4 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 655,777.
What are the odds of winning anything on $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023?
1 in 9.26 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.16 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 9.26, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 43.5.
Is $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 worth buying?
Its current payout is 37.4% ($1.87 back per $5 ticket), rank #128 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 $5 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is EMERALD MINE 50X (#467, $5) at 81.6%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 tickets are left?
We estimate 655,777 of roughly 15,110,323 printed tickets are unsold (95.7% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did $500,000 CASHWORD CORNERS 2023 launch and is it still on sale?
It launched on January 30, 2023. It is still on sale.

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