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Exceptional valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $20 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Exceptional value. A $20 ticket pays back $18.43 on average.
▲ +16.7 pts vs launch#1 of 9 · $20 PA games
▲ +16.7 pts vs launch#1 of 9 · $20 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 92.2%, up 16.7 percentage points from the launch value of 75.5%. 1 of the original 5 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 97% of the 9.0M printed tickets have been sold.
92.2%
expected return
1 in 3.55
odds of any win
1 of 5
$1M jackpots left
97%
claimed · 8.8M of 9M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 63,306 winning tickets still unclaimed.
17 win more than $20
$40 – $200, an actual profit
11 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
72 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 382 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $18.43 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $20 – $500
$13.20 · 66.0% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $50K
$0.83 · 4.2% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$4.39 · 22.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
70.2%
Just 1 ticket out of 228k carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
63,119 winning tickets remain in this range: 72% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
97% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
9M
tickets printed
8.8M
tickets claimed · 97%
228k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
20%
Tickets left
3%
20% of top prizes remain with only 3% 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 $20 PA peers
#1 of 9
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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