When you choose Annual Payout, you'll get your share of the advertised jackpot in 26 annual payments. The jackpot prize pool is the amount of money available to the Virginia Lottery to invest in U.S. Treasury Bonds over a 26 year period. The advertised jackpot is the estimated total amount of pre-tax winnings, plus interest, payable over that 26 year period. The jackpot prize pool is not the same as the advertised jackpot. The graph above compares payouts for the two payment options available with The Big Game or Lotto Virginia.
Numbers are estimates.
Figures will vary, depending on the actual size of the Lotto jackpot prize pool. The jackpot prize pool is the amount of money available to the Virginia Lottery to invest in U.S. Treasury Bonds over a 26 year period to arrive at the final jackpot amount. The jackpot prize pool is roughly HALF of the estimated advertised jackpot. All information is entered manually, and is subject to human error. Therefore, we can not guarantee the accuracy of this information.