Georgia added four new scratch-offs, and the best one costs $5

Georgia released four new scratch-offs on sale September 15, and all four open well above the average game in a state that carries more games than anywhere else.

Georgia now sells 200 scratch-offs. The top game in state of Georgia is 100Xtra with a ValueScore™ of 90.

The Big $5 Ticket wins often, and half those wins are $5

One in 3.33 odds is really good for a $5 game. Georgia's $5 tickets average 1 in 3.69, and nationally the figure is 1 in 4.03. It also carries three $400,000 top prizes, a large top prize at this price point.

The prize table explains the odds. Of about 1.46 million printed prizes, roughly 748,000 are $5, the price of the ticket. That is about half. Nationally four in ten scratch-off prizes return the price, so this game leans harder on money-back wins than most. Its 73% payout sits right at the Georgia average for $5 games.

$500,000 Hollywood Riches pays back the most

The $10 game returns 76.9% of sales, the best of the four new games, with three top prizes of $500,000. Its odds of 1 in 3.90 are longer than the Georgia $10 average of 1 in 3.48. That is why it rates a little below the $5 game despite paying more.

At the cheap end, 30X Bingo Multiplier at $3 and Jumbo Brew Bucks at $2 pay 71.7% and 71.0%. Both are above the national averages for their prices, 65.2% at $3 and 65.6% at $2, a pattern that holds across Georgia's low-price games.

All four launched with full prize pools, so these are their highest scores. Georgia's last launch was two games in August, and current standings for all 200 are on the Georgia page.

Sources

Georgia Lottery: Scratchers