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Poor valueActiveBring Home The Bacon · $5 · Louisiana Lottery
Bring Home The Bacon: Poor value. A $5 ticket pays back $2.73 on average.
▼ -8.0 pts vs launch#2 of 9 · $5 LA games
▼ -8.0 pts vs launch#2 of 9 · $5 LA games
Bring Home The Bacon is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Louisiana state lottery. Its current expected value is 54.6%, down 8.0 percentage points from the launch value of 62.6%. 5 of the original 6 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 22% of the 1.8M printed tickets have been sold.
54.6%
expected return
1 in 4.30
odds of any win
5 of 6
$100K top prizes left
22%
claimed · 406k of 1.8M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 278,293 winning tickets still unclaimed.
13 win more than $5
$10 – $250, an actual profit
7 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
80 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 18,700 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $2.73 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $250
$2.37 · 47.4% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $100K
$0.36 · 7.2% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $250 wins
278,218 winning tickets remain in this range: 87% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
22% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Jun 2026.
1.8M
tickets printed
406k
tickets claimed · 22%
1.4M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
83%
Tickets left
78%
83% of top prizes remain with only 78% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Louisiana Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 LA peers
#2 of 9
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Louisiana Lottery published claim data.
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