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Average valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $2 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Average value. A $2 ticket pays back $1.44 on average.
▲ +1.5 pts vs launch#1 of 10 · $2 PA games
▲ +1.5 pts vs launch#1 of 10 · $2 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $2 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 72.0%, up 1.5 percentage points from the launch value of 70.5%. 6 of the original 17 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 85% of the 4.8M printed tickets have been sold.
72.0%
expected return
1 in 3.84
odds of any win
6 of 17
$10K top prizes left
85%
claimed · 4.1M of 4.8M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 188,549 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $2
$3 – $300, an actual profit
12 win their money back
a $2 prize, so you break even
74 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 80,773 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $1.44 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $2 – $300
$1.35 · 67.3% of price
Mid prizes $3K – $10K
$0.09 · 4.7% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$2 – $300 wins
188,540 winning tickets remain in this range: 93% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
85% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
4.8M
tickets printed
4.1M
tickets claimed · 85%
727k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
35%
Tickets left
15%
35% of top prizes remain with only 15% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Pennsylvania Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $2 PA peers
#1 of 10
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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