Colorado launched 4 new scratch-offs from $1 to $10

Colorado put four new scratch-offs on sale on August 3, priced from $1 to $10.

Broncos Blitz ($5)

Broncos Blitz rates 70.2, the best of the four, with a $100,000 top prize and overall odds of 1 in 3.45. All four top prizes are unclaimed. Its prize table includes a $5,280 tier, which is the height of Denver in feet.

Lucky 13 ($2)

Lucky 13 is a $2 ticket with a $13,000 top prize and odds of 1 in 4.21. It rates 56.9, and three top prizes are available.

Mad Money ($1)

Mad Money is the $1 entry, with a $1,000 top prize and odds of 1 in 4.89. It rates 53.3. There are 145 top prizes in the game, so hitting the ceiling is far more realistic here than on the others, though the ceiling is $1,000.

Double Up! ($10)

Double Up! costs $10 and carries the largest top prize of the group at $250,000, with three unclaimed. It rates 53.0 on odds of 1 in 4.90, the weakest of the four despite being the most expensive.

Why Colorado scores come with a caveat*

Colorado publishes less prize data than almost any state we track, and it changes what can be calculated.

Take Broncos Blitz. The lottery reports that all four $100,000 top prizes are unclaimed, and it lists how many prizes the game was printed with at every level: 50 at $5,280, 11 at $1,000, 396 at $500, 2,700 at $100, and so on down. What it does not report is how many of those smaller prizes are still out there. Every tier below the top prize comes back blank.

Most states like Ohio for example, report both figures at every level. On its Millionaire Blowout you can see 56 of 60 top prizes remaining, 45 of 50 at $25,000, 5,866 of 6,300 at $1,000, and so on all the way down.

That difference has two consequences for all 88 active Colorado games. There is no payout percentage, because measuring how much of the prize pool is still live requires knowing what is left at every tier. And there is no expected value, for the very same reason.

So a Colorado ValueScore™ leans on what the state does publish: the printed prize structure, the overall odds, the price, and the top prize remaining. Those are real inputs and the ranking is still useful for comparing Colorado games against each other, but the score carries more uncertainty than one from a state that reports its full prize table.

It also means a Colorado game can look healthier than it is. A ticket that has sold through most of its $500 and $100 prizes will show exactly the same numbers as one that has not, as long as the top prizes are untouched.

The rest of the Colorado lineup is on our Colorado page, and the national rankings show how these compare to states with fuller data.