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Weak valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $5 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.30 on average.
▼ -5.4 pts vs launch#20 of 21 · $5 PA games
▼ -5.4 pts vs launch#20 of 21 · $5 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 66.0%, down 5.4 percentage points from the launch value of 71.4%. 0 of the original 20 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 96% of the 9.6M printed tickets have been sold.
66.0%
expected return
1 in 4.94
odds of any win
0 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 78,428 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 12,676 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.30 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
$0.08 · 1.7% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
78,422 winning tickets remain in this range: 97% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
96% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch.
9.6M
tickets printed
9.2M
tickets claimed · 96%
393k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
0%
Tickets left
4%
0% of top prizes remain with 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
#20 of 21
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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