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Average valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $5 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Average value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.54 on average.
▼ -0.6 pts vs launch#18 of 20 · $5 PA games
▼ -0.6 pts vs launch#18 of 20 · $5 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 70.8%, down 0.6 percentage points from the launch value of 71.4%. 1 of the original 20 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 96% of the 9.6M printed tickets have been sold.
70.8%
expected return
1 in 4.94
odds of any win
1 of 20
$100K top prizes left
96%
claimed · 9.2M of 9.6M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 81,953 winning tickets still unclaimed.
20 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
0 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
80 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 12,824 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 $10 – $500
$3.22 · 64.3% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $100K
$0.32 · 6.5% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
81,946 winning tickets remain in this range: 91% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
96% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
9.6M
tickets printed
9.2M
tickets claimed · 96%
410k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
5%
Tickets left
4%
5% of top prizes remain with only 4% 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 $5 PA peers
#18 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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