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Average valueActiveSugar Skull Cash · $5 · Texas Lottery
Sugar Skull Cash: Average value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.40 on average.
▲ +0.0 pts vs launch#4 of 27 · $5 TX games
▲ +0.0 pts vs launch#4 of 27 · $5 TX games
Sugar Skull Cash is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Texas state lottery. Its current expected value is 68.0%, up 0.0 percentage points from the launch value of 68.0%. 4 of the original 4 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 1% of the 5.1M printed tickets have been sold.
68.0%
expected return
1 in 3.99
odds of any win
4 of 4
$100K top prizes left
1%
claimed · 51k of 5.1M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,273,910 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $5
$10 – $100, an actual profit
11 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
75 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 9,658 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.40 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
$0.09 · 1.8% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
1,273,852 winning tickets remain in this range: 97% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
1% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch.
5.1M
tickets printed
51k
tickets claimed · 1%
5.1M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
100%
Tickets left
99%
100% of top prizes remain with only 99% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Texas Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 TX peers
#4 of 27
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Texas Lottery published claim data.
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