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Average valueActiveCalifornia Color Pop · $10 · California Lottery
California Color Pop: Average value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.29 on average.
▼ -1.6 pts vs launch#9 of 11 · $10 CA games
▼ -1.6 pts vs launch#9 of 11 · $10 CA games
California Color Pop is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the California state lottery. Its current expected value is 72.9%, down 1.6 percentage points from the launch value of 74.5%. 1 of the original 6 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 77% of the 14.2M printed tickets have been sold.
72.9%
expected return
1 in 3.50
odds of any win
1 of 6
$1M jackpots left
77%
claimed · 10.9M of 14.2M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 946,229 winning tickets still unclaimed.
22 win more than $10
$15 – $200, an actual profit
6 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
72 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 2,906 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.29 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.87 · 68.7% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $20K
$0.12 · 1.2% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.30 · 3.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
69.9%
Just 1 ticket out of 3.3M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
946,049 winning tickets remain in this range: 94% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
77% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Mar 2026.
14.2M
tickets printed
10.9M
tickets claimed · 77%
3.3M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
17%
Tickets left
23%
17% of top prizes remain with 23% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
California Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $10 CA peers
#9 of 11
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from California Lottery published claim data.
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