B
Decent valueActiveWild Side$5 · $5 · Pennsylvania Lottery
Wild Side$5: Decent value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.76 on average.
▲ +0.6 pts vs launch#9 of 20 · $5 PA games
▲ +0.6 pts vs launch#9 of 20 · $5 PA games
Wild Side$5 is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Pennsylvania state lottery. Its current expected value is 75.2%, up 0.6 percentage points from the launch value of 74.6%. 9 of the original 10 $150,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 23% of the 8.4M printed tickets have been sold.
75.2%
expected return
1 in 3.45
odds of any win
9 of 10
$150K top prizes left
23%
claimed · 1.9M of 8.4M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,880,475 winning tickets still unclaimed.
15 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
14 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
71 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 10,520 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.76 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$3.51 · 70.1% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $150K
$0.25 · 5.1% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
1,880,408 winning tickets remain in this range: 93% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
23% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
8.4M
tickets printed
1.9M
tickets claimed · 23%
6.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
90%
Tickets left
77%
90% of top prizes remain with only 77% 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 $5 PA peers
#9 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Pennsylvania Lottery published claim data.
S
Scratchstats