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Average valueActivePower 10's · $10 · California Lottery
Power 10's: Average value. A $10 ticket pays back $6.91 on average.
▼ -5.4 pts vs launch#10 of 10 · $10 CA games
▼ -5.4 pts vs launch#10 of 10 · $10 CA games
Power 10's is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the California state lottery. Its current expected value is 69.1%, down 5.4 percentage points from the launch value of 74.5%. 1 of the original 14 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 86% of the 17.0M printed tickets have been sold.
69.1%
expected return
1 in 3.30
odds of any win
1 of 14
$1M jackpots left
86%
claimed · 14.7M of 17M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 719,436 winning tickets still unclaimed.
16 win more than $10
$15 – $100, an actual profit
15 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
69 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 892 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $6.91 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.04 · 60.4% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $20K
$0.45 · 4.5% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.42 · 4.2% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
64.9%
Just 1 ticket out of 2.3M 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
718,546 winning tickets remain in this range: 87% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
86% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Jul 2025.
17M
tickets printed
14.7M
tickets claimed · 86%
2.3M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
7%
Tickets left
14%
7% of top prizes remain with 14% 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
#10 of 10
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from California Lottery published claim data.
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