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Weak valueActiveBingo Times 20 · $5 · Texas Lottery
Bingo Times 20: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.34 on average.
▼ -1.4 pts vs launch#9 of 27 · $5 TX games
▼ -1.4 pts vs launch#9 of 27 · $5 TX games
Bingo Times 20 is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Texas state lottery. Its current expected value is 66.8%, down 1.4 percentage points from the launch value of 68.2%. 2 of the original 5 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 63% of the 17.3M printed tickets have been sold.
66.8%
expected return
1 in 4.26
odds of any win
2 of 5
$100K top prizes left
63%
claimed · 10.9M of 17.3M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,510,519 winning tickets still unclaimed.
13 win more than $5
$10 – $400, an actual profit
11 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
76 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 8,848 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.34 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$3.31 · 66.2% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $100K
$0.03 · 0.6% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
1,510,510 winning tickets remain in this range: 99% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
63% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
17.3M
tickets printed
10.9M
tickets claimed · 63%
6.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
40%
Tickets left
37%
40% of top prizes remain with only 37% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Texas Lottery
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Rank vs $5 TX peers
#9 of 27
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Texas Lottery published claim data.
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