New York scratch-offs

Every $1 ticket, compared

Prize counts as of August 25, 2026, from the New York Lottery's published daily report. Always confirm against the official site before buying.

1 game with no top prize left

These are still on sale at full price. Every headline prize has already been claimed, so the advertised jackpot is unwinnable.

  • 10X TRA $1 · top prize $5,000 — 0 of 12 left · est. 19% of tickets unsold
New York scratch-off games ranked by realistic return
Game Price Top prize Top left Sold Realistic return
LOOSE CHANGE #1707 $1 $500 1481 of 1548 4% 64%
LUCKY 7S #1699 $1 $7,000 16 of 20 23% 63%
TRIPLE MATCH #1659 $1 $3,000 5 of 15 82% 60%
7-11-21 TRIPLER #1690 $1 $2,100 6 of 20 67% 59%
10X TRA #1679 $1 $5,000 0 of 12 81% 57%
3-2-WON! #1648 $1 $3,000 3 of 20 82% 53%
9S IN A LINE DOUBLER #1665 $1 $999 4 of 13 91% 52%
BONUS 5X #1638 $1 $5,000 1 of 12 88% 51%
LUCKY 7S #1653 $1 $7,000 2 of 20 88% 48%
LOOSE CHANGE #1618 $1 $500 64 of 3205 96% 46%
LOOSE CHANGE #1552 $1 $500 54 of 3128 97% 44%
INSTANT TAKE 5 #1680 $1 $5,555 58 of 95 45% not shown
INSTANT TAKE 5 #1574 $1 $5,555 24 of 95 95% not shown
INSTANT TAKE 5 #1628 $1 $5,555 19 of 95 95% not shown

How to read this

Sold is an estimate of how much of the print run has been bought, worked out from how many prizes have been claimed in the larger prize tiers. Small tiers are too noisy to use, so they are excluded from that estimate.

Realistic return is what a normal buyer can expect back per dollar, counting only prizes with a better than 1-in-50,000 chance per ticket. Prizes rarer than that are listed separately on each game's page rather than folded in—including them would let a couple of unclaimed jackpots make a picked-over game look like a bargain.

Every game here loses money on average. The best of them returns less than you put in. This ranking shows which are less bad, not which are good.

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