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Average valueActiveDouble Your Luck · $20 · Louisiana Lottery
Double Your Luck: Average value. A $20 ticket pays back $14.40 on average.
▼ -2.9 pts vs launch#3 of 4 · $20 LA games
▼ -2.9 pts vs launch#3 of 4 · $20 LA games
Double Your Luck is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Louisiana state lottery. Its current expected value is 72.0%, down 2.9 percentage points from the launch value of 74.9%. 2 of the original 5 $500,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 39% of the 1.5M printed tickets have been sold.
72.0%
expected return
1 in 3.33
odds of any win
2 of 5
$500K top prizes left
39%
claimed · 576k of 1.5M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 267,363 winning tickets still unclaimed.
24 win more than $20
$30 – $200, an actual profit
6 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
70 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 922 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $14.40 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $20 – $500
$13.02 · 65.1% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $500K
$1.38 · 6.9% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
267,220 winning tickets remain in this range: 90% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
39% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, May 2026.
1.5M
tickets printed
576k
tickets claimed · 39%
890k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
40%
Tickets left
61%
40% of top prizes remain with 61% 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 $20 LA peers
#3 of 4
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Louisiana Lottery published claim data.
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