The Prize Payout on your scratch ticket is already outdated.
Let me explain.
Every scratch game launches with something called Prize Payout.
That’s the percentage of ticket sales the lottery plans to return to players as prizes.
Usually somewhere around 65%–85%.
But there’s a catch.
That number is calculated before the first ticket is ever sold.
It’s a blueprint. Its the plan for the life of the game.
Not reality.
Once the game actually starts selling, the math begins to change.
Tickets sell.
Prizes get claimed.
And sometimes the biggest prizes… just sit there.
When that happens, something interesting occurs.
The remaining payout of the game improves.
But the lottery doesn’t update the payout.
So players are often looking at old math.
We update the prize payout daily, where available, and it looks something like this.
PRO members can see the Current Payout on each game’s detail page.
But we don’t have the Current Payout as its own ranking.
And we heard you…
That’s why we created a new ranking we call PrizeYield™️.
PrizeYield recalculates a game’s current payout using:
• Remaining Prizes
• Estimated Tickets Remaining
In other words…
Instead of showing what the game looked like on launch day,
PrizeYield shows what the game looks like today.
Sometimes the difference is small.
Sometimes it’s surprisingly large.
We’ll soon be releasing a PrizeYield ranking so you can quickly see which games currently offer the strongest payout potential.
Same game.
New math.
Next week we’ll wrap up this series with a comparison many players get wrong:
New games vs Old games.
Because the best opportunities don’t always come from the newest tickets.
Play smart.
Have fun.
And never risk more than you can afford.
– Jared
PS – Did you miss Part 1 of the Series on Overall Odds vs Real Odds?
