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Poor valueActiveTriple Golden Cherries · $2 · Ohio Lottery
Triple Golden Cherries: Poor value. A $2 ticket pays back $1.07 on average.
▼ -11.5 pts vs launch#14 of 18 · $2 OH gamesUpdated Jun 17, 2026, 6:41 AM
▼ -11.5 pts vs launch#14 of 18 · $2 OH gamesUpdated Jun 17, 2026, 6:41 AM
Triple Golden Cherries is a $2 scratch-off ticket from the Ohio state lottery. Its current expected value is 53.5%, down 11.5 percentage points from the launch value of 65.0%. 1 of the original 10 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 80% of the 6.0M printed tickets have been sold.
53.5%
expected return
1 in 4.24
odds of any win
1 of 10
$10K top prizes left
80%
claimed · 4.8M of 6M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 243,868 winning tickets still unclaimed.
13 win more than $2
$3 – $100, an actual profit
7 win their money back
a $2 prize, so you break even
80 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 21,461 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $1.07 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $2 – $500
$1.06 · 52.9% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.01 · 0.6% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$2 – $500 wins
243,862 winning tickets remain in this range: 99% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
80% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Mar 2025.
6M
tickets printed
4.8M
tickets claimed · 80%
1.2M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
10%
Tickets left
20%
10% of top prizes remain with 20% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Ohio Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $2 OH peers
#14 of 18
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Ohio Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 17, 2026, 6:41 AM.
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