Connecticut Lottery's latest scratch-off launch includes four holiday games and three new editions

The CT Lottery put eight scratch-offs on sale Friday, October 30, priced from $1 to $20. Four have holiday names, and three are new editions of earlier games. All of their top prizes are still out, and three of them rate first among Connecticut's active games at their price on our ValueScore™.

$100, $200 or $500 2nd Edition ($20)

This one is built differently from the rest of the launch. It has just three prizes, $100, $200, and $500, so a winning ticket pays at least five times its price. The catch is how rarely it wins, 1 in 9.19, which means close to nine of 10 tickets pay nothing. Of the 171,150 winners, 125,806 pay $100, 37,853 pay $200, and 7,491 pay $500, about one $500 prize per 210 tickets. It returns 76.0% of sales, a little above Connecticut's $20 average of 74.4%, and rates 75.3, third of seven $20 games.

Holiday Treasure ($10)

Holiday Treasure has the biggest top prize of the launch, four of $100,000 in 835,650 tickets, about 1 in 209,000. Below that sit five $10,000 prizes and 25 of $1,000. It wins 1 in 3.14 times, and about 31% of those wins return the $10. At 77.1 it rates highest of the eight, ninth among all 57 Connecticut games, though its 68.9% payout trails the state's $10 average of 69.8%.

5X The Money 20th Edition ($5)

The 20th version of this game is by far the biggest print run here, 5,447,100 tickets with seven $50,000 top prizes, about 1 in 778,000. Half of its winning tickets just pay back the $5. It rates 67.5, first of 10 $5 games in the state.

Holiday Luck X50 ($5)

Holiday Luck X50 pays the same 67.9% as 5X The Money and has the same $50,000 top prize, but only four of them, in a much smaller run of 1,355,900 tickets. That makes its top-prize odds better, about 1 in 339,000. It also has 10 prizes of $5,000 and rates 65.0, second among $5 games.

UConn Husky Holidays ($3)

The UConn-branded ticket has four $30,000 top prizes in 834,800 tickets, about 1 in 209,000, plus eight prizes of $1,000. It wins 1 in 3.64 times and rates 64.3, second of nine $3 games.

20X The Cash 2nd Edition ($2)

Its four $25,000 top prizes are spread through 1,926,100 tickets, about 1 in 482,000. The 64.6% payout beats the state's $2 average of 63.4%, and the game rates 56.1, first of eight $2 games.

It's Gold Outside ($2)

The other new $2 game tops out lower, at $10,000, but its four top prizes sit in 833,000 tickets, about 1 in 208,000. It wins 1 in 3.98 times and rates 53.2, second among $2 games.

Holiday Cash ($1)

The dollar ticket has four $5,000 top prizes in 1,358,600 tickets, about 1 in 340,000, and wins 1 in 4.18 times. It rates 46.8, first of six $1 games.

The new games follow the early-October launches, led by Connecticut Apizza. The state's best-paying games are ranked in which Connecticut scratch-offs win the most, and recent releases are on the Connecticut scratch-offs page.

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CT Lottery: $100, $200 or $500 2nd Edition (Game 1905)

CT Lottery: Holiday Treasure (Game 1910)

CT Lottery: 5X The Money 20th Edition (Game 1915)

CT Lottery: Holiday Luck X50 (Game 1909)

CT Lottery: UConn Husky Holidays (Game 1917)

CT Lottery: 20X The Cash 2nd Edition (Game 1899)

CT Lottery: It's Gold Outside (Game 1908)

CT Lottery: Holiday Cash (Game 1907)