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Average valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $2 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Average value. A $2 ticket pays back $1.38 on average.
▲ +0.5 pts vs launch#6 of 9 · $2 PA games
▲ +0.5 pts vs launch#6 of 9 · $2 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $2 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 69.0%, up 0.5 percentage points from the launch value of 68.5%. 1 of the original 5 $20,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 80% of the 4.8M printed tickets have been sold.
69.0%
expected return
1 in 4.54
odds of any win
1 of 5
$20K top prizes left
80%
claimed · 3.8M of 4.8M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 209,391 winning tickets still unclaimed.
10 win more than $2
$4 – $400, an actual profit
12 win their money back
a $2 prize, so you break even
78 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 136,248 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $1.38 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $2 – $400
$1.35 · 67.3% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $20K
$0.03 · 1.7% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$2 – $400 wins
209,384 winning tickets remain in this range: 98% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
80% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
4.8M
tickets printed
3.8M
tickets claimed · 80%
954k
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
20%
20% of top prizes remain with only 20% 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 $2 PA peers
#6 of 9
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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