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Decent valueActiveSet For Life · $10 · California Lottery
Set For Life: Decent value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.87 on average.
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#2 of 11 · $10 CA games
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#2 of 11 · $10 CA games
Set For Life is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the California state lottery. Its current expected value is 78.7%, up 0.2 percentage points from the launch value of 78.5%. 5 of the original 5 $6,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 1% of the 15.0M printed tickets have been sold.
78.7%
expected return
1 in 3.76
odds of any win
5 of 5
$6M jackpots left
1%
claimed · 114k of 15M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 3,964,223 winning tickets still unclaimed.
21 win more than $10
$15 – $400, an actual profit
6 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
73 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 4,562 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.87 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$5.76 · 57.6% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.10 · 1.0% of price
Jackpots $6M+
$2.01 · 20.1% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
58.6%
Just 5 tickets out of 14.9M carry the $6M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
3,962,944 winning tickets remain in this range: 73% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
1% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Sep 2026.
15M
tickets printed
114k
tickets claimed · 1%
14.9M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
100%
Tickets left
99%
100% of top prizes remain with only 99% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
California Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $10 CA peers
#2 of 11
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from California Lottery published claim data.
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