Blazing Hot Bucks — $5 Mississippi Scratch-Off #206
Blazing Hot Bucks (#206) is a $5 Mississippi scratch-off launched on May 6, 2025. As of November 6, 2026 it ranks #4 of 71 active games on current payout (105.0%, $5.25 expected back per ticket) and #4 of 21 $5 games, #2 on any-prize odds (1 in 2.05) and #51 on top-prize odds (—). Since launch the payout has risen 36.3 points (68.8% at launch) and your chance of winning something has risen 92.7% (1 in 3.95 at launch). 0 of 2 top prizes of $100,000 remain, and we estimate 34,119 tickets are still unsold (97.0% 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 Mississippi scratch-offs to buy. A caution on the current figures: a current payout of 105.0% says the unclaimed prizes are worth more than the unsold tickets cost. A game can get there late in its run, when large prizes go unhit, but that is also where our estimate of the tickets left is least reliable (5.8% of this game's prizes are left), so read the figure as approximate, not as a reason to buy. And the any-prize odds have moved from 1 in 3.95 to 1 in 2.05, further than a game's odds really move. Its prize tiers disagree about how many tickets are left (between 0.03 million and 0.08 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).
Prizes remaining
Every prize level in Blazing Hot Bucks, 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 Mississippi game, see odds by prize size. Across all tiers, 16,645 of 285,647 prizes (5.8%) are still out there.
| Prize | Odds at launch | Odds now | Total | Claimed | Remaining | % left |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 1 in 564,153 | all claimed | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 376,102 | all claimed | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 282,076 | all claimed | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0% |
| $500 | 1 in 12,003 | 1 in 17,059 | 94 | 92 | 2 | 2.1% |
| $100 | 1 in 400.4 | 1 in 341.2 | 2,818 | 2,718 | 100 | 3.5% |
| $50 | 1 in 209.0 | 1 in 204.3 | 5,399 | 5,232 | 167 | 3.1% |
| $25 | 1 in 48.1 | 1 in 34.8 | 23,481 | 22,500 | 981 | 4.2% |
| $20 | 1 in 24.0 | 1 in 15.3 | 47,043 | 44,815 | 2,228 | 4.7% |
| $10 | 1 in 12.0 | 1 in 6.85 | 93,932 | 88,949 | 4,983 | 5.3% |
| $5 | 1 in 10.00 | 1 in 4.17 | 112,871 | 104,687 | 8,184 | 7.3% |
| All prizes | 1 in 3.95 | 1 in 2.05 | 285,647 | 269,002 | 16,645 | 5.8% |
How Blazing Hot Bucks has moved
Blazing Hot Bucks: common questions
- How many $100,000 prizes are left in Blazing Hot Bucks?
- 0 of 2 as of November 6, 2026. The top prize is gone; anything you win will be a lower tier.
- What are the odds of winning anything on Blazing Hot Bucks?
- 1 in 2.05 as of November 6, 2026, compared with 1 in 3.95 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 2.05, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 4.03.
- Is Blazing Hot Bucks worth buying?
- Its current payout is 105.0% ($5.25 back per $5 ticket), rank #4 of 71 in Mississippi. 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 November 6, 2026 is Money Bags (#241, $5) at 74.3%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
- How many Blazing Hot Bucks tickets are left?
- We estimate 34,119 of roughly 1,128,306 printed tickets are unsold (97.0% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
- When did Blazing Hot Bucks launch and is it still on sale?
- It launched on May 6, 2025. It is still on sale.
Other $5 Mississippi scratch-offs
- Double the Money — 125.1% payout, 1 in 2.24 any prize
- Break the Bank — 121.0% payout, 1 in 1.70 any prize
- Gold Bar Bingo — 105.5% payout, 1 in 2.09 any prize
- 10X — 99.3% payout, 1 in 2.10 any prize
- Elvis — 93.2% payout, 1 in 2.07 any prize