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Weak valueActiveBLACKJACK - WILD CARD · $5 · West Virginia Lottery
BLACKJACK - WILD CARD: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.36 on average.
▼ -0.4 pts vs launch#11 of 18 · $5 WV games
▼ -0.4 pts vs launch#11 of 18 · $5 WV games
BLACKJACK - WILD CARD is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the West Virginia state lottery. Its current expected value is 67.2%, down 0.4 percentage points from the launch value of 67.6%. 2 of the original 4 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 53% of the 0.7M printed tickets have been sold.
67.2%
expected return
1 in 5.72
odds of any win
2 of 4
$10K top prizes left
53%
claimed · 383k of 720k printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 63,930 winning tickets still unclaimed.
19 win more than $5
$10 – $100, an actual profit
0 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
81 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 14,654 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.36 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$3.31 · 66.1% of price
Mid prizes $10K
$0.05 · 1.1% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
63,928 winning tickets remain in this range: 98% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
53% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Feb 2026.
720k
tickets printed
383k
tickets claimed · 53%
337k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
50%
Tickets left
47%
50% of top prizes remain with only 47% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
West Virginia Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 WV peers
#11 of 18
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
1
SMORE - FROGGY CROSSWORD
70.6%
2
POWER LINES
68.6%
3
MOTHMAN FORTUNE-MERRY LITTLE CRYPTIDS
68.4%
4
$$50,000 JUMBO CASH
68.2%
5
COCKY-ENCOUNTERS CROSSWORD
68.2%
6
TACO - BREW MATCH
68.0%
7
I CAN'T EVEN 5
68.0%
8
CELEBRATE 40 5X
67.6%
9
PICKLE-GRAFFITI-BOW WOW-JALAPENO KENO
67.4%
10
BIG 7s - JUNGLE-LEGENDARY-RUST-INFINITE
67.2%
Figures from West Virginia Lottery published claim data.
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