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Active$1,000 Tax Free · $20 · Ohio Lottery

$1,000 Tax Free: Decent value. A $20 ticket pays back $15.10 on average.

▼ -0.6 pts vs launch#9 of 13 · $20 OH gamesUpdated Jun 15, 2026

$1,000 Tax Free is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Ohio state lottery. Its current expected value is 75.5%, down 0.6 percentage points from the launch value of 76.1%. 3,443 of the original 13,767 $1,389 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 76% of the 4.0M printed tickets have been sold.

75.5%
expected return
1 in 3.5
odds of any win
3,443 of 13,767
$1K top prizes left
76%
claimed · 3M of 4M printed
Odds, in plain terms

If you bought 100 tickets today

Based on the 292,059 winning tickets still unclaimed.

8 win more than $20
$50 or $100 or $250, an actual profit
21 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
71 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 245 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map

Where the $15.10 comes from

The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.

Small wins $20 – $500
$10.44 · 52.2% of price
Mid prizes $1K
$4.66 · 23.3% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
288,616 winning tickets remain in this range: 69% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress

76% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there

Counting every ticket since launch, Jun 2024.

4M
tickets printed
3M
tickets claimed · 76%
969k
still out there
Tickets claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
25%
Tickets left
24%
25% of top prizes remain with only 24% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Ohio Lottery
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Rank vs $20 OH peers
#9 of 13
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
1
$1,000,000 Cash Is King
107.0%
2
Set For Life
99.8%
3
$2,000,000 Cash Blast
85.8%
4
$1,000,000 Stacked
80.5%
5
$1,000,000 Cashword
78.7%
6
$1,000,000 Holiday Wish
78.2%
7
$1,000,000 Cash Payout
77.8%
8
$300 Million Diamond Dazzler
77.1%
9
$1,000 Tax Free
75.5%
10
$2,000,000 Extreme Cash
69.3%
Figures from Ohio Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 15, 2026.
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