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Poor valueActiveBring Home The Bacon · $5 · Louisiana Lottery
Bring Home The Bacon: Poor value. A $5 ticket pays back $2.84 on average.
▼ -5.8 pts vs launch#1 of 8 · $5 LA games
▼ -5.8 pts vs launch#1 of 8 · $5 LA games
Bring Home The Bacon is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Louisiana state lottery. Its current expected value is 56.8%, down 5.8 percentage points from the launch value of 62.6%. 5 of the original 6 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 16% of the 1.8M printed tickets have been sold.
56.8%
expected return
1 in 4.30
odds of any win
5 of 6
$100K top prizes left
16%
claimed · 297k of 1.8M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 316,328 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $5
$10 – $250, an actual profit
7 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
79 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 18,652 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $2.84 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $250
$2.50 · 50.0% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $100K
$0.34 · 6.8% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $250 wins
316,247 winning tickets remain in this range: 88% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
16% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Jun 2026.
1.8M
tickets printed
297k
tickets claimed · 16%
1.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
83%
Tickets left
84%
83% of top prizes remain with 84% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Louisiana Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 LA peers
#1 of 8
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Louisiana Lottery published claim data.
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