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Cash4Life: a $2 ticket, two life prizes, and a sales end
Cash4Life was a $2 lottery draw in which you picked five numbers from 1 through 60 and a Cash Ball from 1 through 4, with a top prize of $1,000 a day for life (about 1 in 21,846,048) and a second prize of $1,000 a week for life (about 1 in 7,282,016). The Georgia Lottery and the Missouri Lottery said sales ended February 21, 2026, and claim windows depend on the state that sold the ticket rather than one national deadline printed here. You had to be 18, or older where the selling state required it.
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Five numbers, a Cash Ball, and two dollars
Cash4Life asked for two picks on one slip. The first pick was five different numbers from 1 through 60.
The second pick was a Cash Ball from 1 through 4. The price of that play was $2. A ticket with more than one play cost $2 times the plays you bought.
The draw compared your five numbers and your Cash Ball with the numbers drawn that day. How many you matched decided the prize row.
This page verifies two of those rows, the life prizes, and leaves the lower rows to the state chart. Guessing a $100 tier from memory is how a guide invents a paytable.
Cash4life explained after the matrix
Say the ticket back to yourself. Five from 60, one Cash Ball from four, two dollars.
If a terminal offered extra options, those options were a different product with a different price. They are not given numbers here.
How lottery odds are counted is the general method. Cash4Life's matrix is the specific one above. The lottery topic hub holds the neighboring explainers.
The verified prize table, and what stays off it
Two prizes are verified for this article. Everything else on the old glass is marked not published so a reader does not treat a memory as a contract.
| Prize | Amount | Approximate odds | Match detail on this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top | $1,000 a day for life | about 1 in 21,846,048 | the chart on the selling state's page |
| Second | $1,000 a week for life | about 1 in 7,282,016 | the chart on the selling state's page |
| Lower tiers | not published | not published | not published |
| Cash option or lump sum | not published | not published | not published |
| Minimum years on the life prize | not published | not published | not published |
The life wording is the prize as stated: a day for the top, a week for the second. Extra terms, if a state attached them, stay on that state's sheet. Do not promote a lump sum this page did not verify.
Maryland's prize-structure page and Missouri's Cash4Life page are the sources below. If a state's chart disagrees with a blog, follow the state that sold the ticket.
| Question | Cash4Life ticket | House-banked casino | PVPspinArena |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2 a play | not published | the stake you choose |
| Top prize | $1,000 a day for life | not published | pot minus 5% |
| Odds | about 1 in 21,846,048 for the top prize | not published | not a lottery matrix |
| Sales | ended February 21, 2026, per Georgia and Missouri | not published | not a lottery |
| Promo code | we do not list a promo code | not published | we do not list a promo code |
Cash4life odds on the day prize and the week prize
Cash4life odds for the top prize are about 1 in 21,846,048. Cash4life odds for the second prize are about 1 in 7,282,016.
Both figures are the published approximations for those life rows. They are not a promise that your next $2 is "due," and they are not the odds of a lower tier. Lower-tier odds are not published here.
Buying ten tickets does not get a combined odds line in this guide. Ten plays are ten chances at $2 each, $20 in total, each still facing the same matrix. Overlaps and shared numbers make a blended probability a different problem, and that blend is not printed here.
Cash4life payout
The cash4life payout for a top prize was $1,000 a day for life. The second prize paid $1,000 a week for life.
How long "for life" runs, and whether a winner could take a different form of the money, is not published on this page. Read the state that sold the ticket before you plan a budget around the annuity.
Taxes sit beside the prize. Lottery taxes is the explainer.
This article does not name a rate. What to do after a win covers the practical sequence: slow down, read the claim rule, get qualified help.
Peer games are a separate price. Jackpot and Coinflip take 5% of the pot.
How they compare: coinflip pays the pot minus that fee, and fairness is where a settled coin can be checked. When a live block is on the game page, it updates from settled play. No lottery draw is reprinted as if it were a coin result.
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One $2 play beside a $2 seat
These dollars keep the lottery stake and the peer fee from sharing a sentence they do not deserve.
Ticket example. One Cash4Life play cost $2.
The top-prize chance on that play was about 1 in 21,846,048. The second-prize chance was about 1 in 7,282,016.
This page does not turn those odds into an expected-value dollar, because the life prize's extra terms and any lump sum are not published here. A $2 ticket is a $2 ticket against that matrix.
Comparison pot. Four players each put $2 into a Jackpot.
The pot is $8. Five percent is $0.40.
The winner receives $7.60. The $0.40 is a fee on an $8 peer pot. It is not a lottery hold, and $7.60 is not a Cash4Life prize.
Second amount. Two people play Coinflip at $24 a side.
The pot is $48. Five percent is $2.40.
The winner receives $45.60. That game has no Cash Ball and no life annuity. The winner is paid when the round settles, from the pot the two of them funded.
What to read before a claim or a memory
Sales have a date on them. A claim is a different clock. Do not merge the two.
- Remember the matrix: five from 1–60, Cash Ball from 1–4, $2 a play.
- Use the top-prize odds of about 1 in 21,846,048 only for that prize.
- Use the second-prize odds of about 1 in 7,282,016 only for that prize.
- Leave lower tiers, lump sums, and minimum years as not published until the state chart shows them.
- Treat February 21, 2026 as the sales end announced by the Georgia Lottery and the Missouri Lottery.
- Find the claim window from the state that sold the ticket. Do not apply a neighbor state's deadline.
- Keep the ticket where that state's claim rule can see it. A photo may not be enough.
- You are 18 or the higher age that state required.
- Read what a win requires next before you post the ticket online.
- Ignore any message that asks for a fee to release a Cash4Life prize. We do not list a promo code.
A closed sale is not a national claim clock
February 21, 2026 is the sales end those lotteries announced. It is not, by itself, the last day you may claim a ticket bought earlier.
Claim windows depend on the state that sold the ticket. A player who uses another state's rumor can miss a real deadline or invent a fake one. Call the lottery that printed the ticket.
The other risk is treating the life prize as spendable cash on day one. A thousand dollars a day is the stated prize.
Taxes, payment timing, and any option this page did not verify can change what arrives. Do not pledge the unverified lump sum.
Scammers like a famous annuity. They pair the logo with a request for upfront tax money or a wallet address.
The selling state's claim process does not start with a stranger's invoice. This site is not an affiliate of Cash4Life and does not list a code that unlocks a prize.
The state that sold the ticket sets the claim
Lottery rules are state rules. Eighteen is the floor described here.
If the selling state required an older buyer, that age was the rule. This is not legal advice.
A ticket sold in one state is claimed under that state's process, even if you live somewhere else now. Do not assume Missouri's page and Maryland's prize chart and Georgia's sales announcement are interchangeable forms. Read the one that matches the ticket in your hand.
If chasing drawings is the habit, and Cash4Life's closed sale tempts you toward a different game with a similar name, open support for stepping away from tickets. A new matrix is a new stake. It does not inherit the annuity you did not win.
Two verified rows, then the state that sold it
Cash4Life, as verified here, was a $2 play on five numbers from 1–60 and a Cash Ball from 1–4. The top prize was $1,000 a day for life, about 1 in 21,846,048.
The second prize was $1,000 a week for life, about 1 in 7,282,016. Other rows stay not published in this file.
The Georgia Lottery and the Missouri Lottery said sales ended February 21, 2026. Claims still follow the state that sold the ticket. There is no national deadline on this page for you to memorize.
A peer pot remains available math if you want it: 5% of the pot, winner receives the rest, settled into a US-dollar balance. That pot is not a life annuity and it is not a substitute claim form. Sign the real claim with the lottery that has your ticket, inside the window that lottery printed.
Maryland's prize page is the source for the structure cited here. Missouri's Cash4Life page is the other source.
Georgia is named because that lottery, with Missouri, announced the February 21, 2026 sales end. Do not treat those notes as one form you can file.
A ticket bought before the sales end can still be a live claim. Whether it is live depends on the state printed on it. A calendar reminder set to February 21, 2026 will track the sales announcement and can miss a shorter claim rule, or invent a deadline the selling state never wrote.
Lower rows on the old chart stay not published in this file on purpose. If your ticket matched something other than the two life prizes, the amount is on the state chart, not in a guess that starts from $1,000 a day. The day prize and the week prize are the only amounts this page will say.
A life annuity that has stopped selling is not a second draw for a dead ticket. Entering a losing ticket in a later draw is that other product.
A different life-annuity game is still selling. Connecticut's rules PDF and North Dakota's page were opened on 20 October 2026. That rules table is not the game Georgia and Missouri closed. The cash-option dollar amount stays unpublished.
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