The 1-Off ticket covers five tiers, and adding them up is the only way to see what it is worth. A $1 play returns $2,500 once in 10,000 draws, $124 eight times, $24 twenty-four times, $14 thirty-two times and $32 sixteen times: $5,028 for every $10,000 staked, or roughly 50 cents on the dollar, the same as everything else on the chart.
The game at a glance
4 digits, 0–9 each
10,000 possible results, repeats allowed, order counts.
3 a day
Every day. Midday 12:29 p.m. ET · Evening 6:59 p.m. ET · Night 11:34 p.m. ET — 21 draws a week.
1 in 10,000
The same for every one of the possible results, including the one you picked.
Fixed amounts
Printed in advance and paid in full to every winner. $5,000 for a $1 straight.
$0.50 or $1 a play
Operated by the Georgia Lottery.
18+
Must be 18+ to buy a Georgia Lottery ticket.
Cash 4, in brief
Cash 4 is the four-digit half of the Georgia Lottery's daily pair. Four digits are drawn, each 0 through 9, for 10,000 possible results. It shares Cash 3's schedule exactly — midday, evening and night, every day — and most of its play types, with two clear differences.
The first is the box ladder. Four digits can repeat in four different patterns, so a box is quoted as 24-way, 12-way, 6-way or 4-way depending on the number you wrote, and the prize climbs as the number of arrangements falls. The second is what is missing: Cash 4 has no pair plays. Cash 3 sells a front pair and a back pair; the four-digit game does not sell any.
Prizes are fixed and published, capped by a $10 million liability limit that Georgia enforces by suspending sales rather than by trimming payouts. 1-Off is available here too, with five tiers instead of Cash 3's four.
Every bet type, with the odds
| Bet type | Winning arrangements | Odds | Share of draws | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StraightAll four digits in your order. | 1 | 1 in 10,000 | $5,000 on a $1 play, $2,500 on 50¢ | |
| 24-Way BoxFour unique digits, any order. | 24 | 1 in 417 | $200 on a $1 play, $100 on 50¢ | |
| 12-Way BoxTwo identical digits and two others. | 12 | 1 in 833 | $400 on a $1 play, $200 on 50¢ | |
| 6-Way BoxTwo identical pairs. | 6 | 1 in 1,667 | $800 on a $1 play, $400 on 50¢ | |
| 4-Way BoxThree identical digits and one other. The fewest arrangements, so the biggest box prize. | 4 | 1 in 2,500 | $1,200 on a $1 play, $600 on 50¢ | |
| 24-Way Straight/BoxA $1 ticket split between straight and box. Exact order takes both halves. | 24 | 1 in 417 | $2,600 in exact order (1 in 10,000), $100 in any other order | |
| 12-Way Straight/BoxThe split ticket on a number with one repeated digit. | 12 | 1 in 833 | $2,700 in exact order (1 in 10,000), $200 in any other order | |
| 6-Way Straight/BoxThe split ticket on two identical pairs. | 6 | 1 in 1,667 | $2,900 in exact order (1 in 10,000), $400 in any other order | |
| 4-Way Straight/BoxThe split ticket on three of a kind. | 4 | 1 in 2,500 | $3,100 in exact order (1 in 10,000), $600 in any other order | |
| 24-Way ComboAll 24 orderings as separate straights on one ticket. | 24 | 1 in 417 | $5,000 | |
| 12-Way ComboTwelve straights covering one repeated digit. | 12 | 1 in 833 | $5,000 | |
| 6-Way ComboSix straights covering two identical pairs. | 6 | 1 in 1,667 | $5,000 | |
| 4-Way ComboFour straights covering three of a kind. The cheapest full cover on the board. | 4 | 1 in 2,500 | $5,000 | |
| 1-Off — exact matchThe top tier of the 1-Off ticket. A straight hit, paid at half the straight rate. | 1 | 1 in 10,000 | $2,500 on a $1 play, $1,250 on 50¢ | |
| 1-Off — one digit offOne position a step high or low, three exact. Four positions times two directions. | 8 | 1 in 1,250 | $124 on a $1 play, $62 on 50¢ | |
| 1-Off — two digits offTwo positions off by one. Six ways to pick the pair, four combinations of directions. | 24 | 1 in 417 | $24 on a $1 play, $12 on 50¢ | |
| 1-Off — three digits offThree positions off by one, one exact. The shortest odds of the five tiers. | 32 | 1 in 313 | $14 on a $1 play, $7 on 50¢ | |
| 1-Off — four digits offEvery position a step away. Two directions on each of four digits. | 16 | 1 in 625 | $32 on a $1 play, $16 on 50¢ |
Where Cash 4 came from
The four-digit companion
Cash 4 exists for the reason every state's four-digit game exists: the three-digit game already had the terminals, the play slips and the audience. Adding a digit multiplies the outcome space by ten and lets the top prize jump from hundreds to thousands without changing anything about how the draw is run.
Same slip, longer ladder
The play types transferred almost untouched from Cash 3. Straight, box, straight/box and combo all mean what they meant. Only the box had to grow from two rungs to four, because a four-digit number has four repeat patterns rather than two.
Where the pairs went
Georgia chose not to run pair plays on Cash 4. A front or back pair on a four-digit number would cover a hundred outcomes rather than ten, which is still 1 in 100 and would need its own prize line; several states do sell it, and Florida even adds a mid pair. Georgia's chart stops at combo and 1-Off.
1-Off grew a tier
Because there is one more digit, there is one more way to be near. Cash 4's 1-Off pays on an exact match and on one, two, three or all four digits landing a step away — five tiers where Cash 3 has four.
Playing digits, honestly
A 4-way box paying $1,200 next to a 24-way box paying $200 is not a better deal. It wins six times less often. Both hand back about 48 cents per dollar over any long run.
Cash 4 has no front pair, no mid pair and no back pair. If you have seen those on a four-digit slip it was another state's game; Georgia's chart stops at 1-Off.
Three of a kind is not rare enough to be a strategy. Of the 10,000 outcomes, 360 have exactly three matching digits, so the pattern turns up about once every 28 draws — which is precisely why the 4-way box is priced the way it is.
Cash 4 — frequently asked
A straight is 1 in 10,000. A box depends on your number's pattern: 24-way is 1 in 417, 12-way 1 in 833, 6-way 1 in 1,667 and 4-way 1 in 2,500. A 1-Off ticket's shortest tier, three digits off, is 1 in 313.
No. Cash 3 sells both; Cash 4 sells neither. The Georgia play types on the four-digit game are straight, box, straight/box, combo and 1-Off. Other states, Florida among them, do offer four-digit pair plays.
Choose which positions missed, then choose up or down for each: C(4, k) × 2^k. One digit off is 4 × 2 = 8 outcomes, two digits off is 6 × 4 = 24, three is 4 × 8 = 32, four is 1 × 16 = 16. Zero counts as one away from nine, which is what gives every digit two neighbours.
One dollar for each ordering it covers. A 4-way combo is $4, a 6-way is $6, a 12-way is $12 and a 24-way is $24. Whichever you buy, an exact hit pays the full $5,000 straight prize.
Three times a day, seven days a week: midday at 12:29 p.m., evening at 6:59 p.m. and night at 11:34 p.m. ET. The same schedule as Cash 3, on the same play slip.