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Average valueActiveEmerald 7's · $5 · New Jersey Lottery
Emerald 7's: Average value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.54 on average.
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#2 of 20 · $5 NJ games
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#2 of 20 · $5 NJ games
Emerald 7's is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the New Jersey state lottery. Its current expected value is 70.8%, up 0.2 percentage points from the launch value of 70.6%. 4 of the original 4 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 7% of the 4.7M printed tickets have been sold.
70.8%
expected return
1 in 4.19
odds of any win
4 of 4
$200K top prizes left
7%
claimed · 336k of 4.7M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,051,320 winning tickets still unclaimed.
16 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
8 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
76 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 6,177 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.54 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$3.34 · 66.8% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $200K
$0.20 · 4.0% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
1,051,277 winning tickets remain in this range: 94% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
7% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Sep 2026.
4.7M
tickets printed
336k
tickets claimed · 7%
4.4M
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
93%
100% of top prizes remain with only 93% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
New Jersey Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 NJ peers
#2 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from New Jersey Lottery published claim data.
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