Quick question.
When You look for the best scratch game, do you stop at the overall odds?
Most players do.
That’s the number printed on the ticket.
Easy. Familiar.
But that’s just the surface.
Underneath it is another layer most players miss: Prize Starting Odds.
Prize starting odds tell you the chances of hitting a specific prize when the game first launched.
Before any tickets sold.
Before any prizes were claimed.
They show how the game was built.
As we always like to say, prizes can hit early, on time or late.
Like overall odds, they aren’t a guarantee to hit on the exact odds.
Each prize level, in each game, has its own starting odds.
And once you see that, you start looking at games very differently.
If you want to see prize starting odds broken out by prize level — not just the headline number — here’s where that layer lives:
Visit any scratch game page (👉 like this one) and you’ll see Prize Starting Odds under the Prize Odds tab.
Next week, I’ll talk about current odds — and how odds can change once a game has been on sale for a while.
Play smart.
Have fun.
And never risk more than you can afford.
– Jared
