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Average valueActiveSales Ending Soon · $20 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Sales Ending Soon: Average value. A $20 ticket pays back $14.61 on average.
▼ -2.5 pts vs launch#7 of 9 · $20 PA games
▼ -2.5 pts vs launch#7 of 9 · $20 PA games
Sales Ending Soon is a $20 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 73.0%, down 2.5 percentage points from the launch value of 75.5%. 0 of the original 5 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 80% of the 9.0M printed tickets have been sold.
73.0%
expected return
1 in 3.67
odds of any win
0 of 5
$1M jackpots left
80%
claimed · 7.2M of 9M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 496,131 winning tickets still unclaimed.
15 win more than $20
$30 – $250, an actual profit
11 win their money back
a $20 prize, so you break even
74 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 218 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $14.61 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $20 – $500
$12.09 · 60.4% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $50K
$2.52 · 12.6% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.00 · 0.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
73.0%
Just 0 tickets out of 1.8M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$20 – $500 wins
491,848 winning tickets remain in this range: 83% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
80% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch.
9M
tickets printed
7.2M
tickets claimed · 80%
1.8M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
0%
Tickets left
20%
0% of top prizes remain with 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 $20 PA peers
#7 of 9
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
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