A typical $1 scratch-off run is worth $2.9 million. At $50, it is worth $232.7 million
Every scratch-off game is a fixed print run with a fixed number of prizes inside it. Multiplying a game's printed prizes by its overall odds recovers about how many tickets exist. Figures cover active US scratch-off games in our database as of the end of September 2026.
| Ticket price | Games | Median tickets printed | Median prizes printed | Run at face value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1 | 240 | 2.93 million | 638,000 | $2.9 million |
| $2 | 391 | 3.10 million | 751,000 | $6.2 million |
| $3 | 181 | 2.44 million | 648,000 | $7.3 million |
| $5 | 663 | 3.98 million | 938,000 | $19.9 million |
| $10 | 538 | 3.16 million | 785,000 | $31.6 million |
| $20 | 313 | 2.59 million | 718,000 | $51.7 million |
| $30 | 131 | 3.59 million | 1.06 million | $107.8 million |
| $50 | 75 | 4.65 million | 1.41 million | $232.7 million |
| $100 | 5 | 5.65 million | 1.44 million | $564.6 million |
The ticket counts stay in a narrow band. A $1 game and a $50 game are printed in similar quantities, between roughly 2.4 and 5.6 million tickets at the median. What changes is the money. The same physical stack of tickets is a $2.9 million product at $1 and a $232.7 million product at $50.
Why the runs stay about the same size
A print run has to be big enough to spread prizes sensibly and small enough to sell through in a reasonable period. Those constraints land in the same place across the price range, and that is why the counts cluster. A premium game simply attaches more money to each ticket in the run.
The run size also sets what a top prize can be. Funding a million-dollar prize out of a $2.9 million run leaves very little for everything else. That is why almost no cheap ticket carries one. It is the same reason premium games stay on sale longer, since a $50 run takes far more selling to clear.
The biggest runs in the country
Georgia prints the largest runs we can measure, and it prints them at the cheap end.
| Game | State | Price | Estimated tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jumbo Bucks Classic | Georgia | $2 | 252 million |
| Junior Jumbo Bucks | Georgia | $1 | 225 million |
| 5X The Money | Georgia | $1 | 195 million |
| 50X The Money | Georgia | $10 | 172 million |
| Loose Change | New York | $1 | 154 million |
Those are long-running staples, not new releases, and that is how a run reaches that size. How the tickets themselves get made is covered in our look at production, and how a run is broken into packs is a separate question.
How we did this. Ticket counts are estimated as a game's total printed prizes multiplied by its published overall odds, for active US games where a lottery publishes both. Run at face value multiplies the estimated ticket count by the ticket price. Medians are per game. A small number of games report remaining prizes in place of printed totals, which produces implausibly small runs; those affect the extremes rather than the medians, so only medians are given by price. Figures cover active US scratch-off games in our database as of the end of September 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many tickets are printed for a scratch-off game?
Usually a few million. The median active US game has a print run between 2.4 and 5.6 million tickets depending on price, and the counts are surprisingly similar across price points. A median $1 game prints about 2.9 million tickets and a median $50 game about 4.7 million.
How much is a scratch-off print run worth?
The value scales with price even though the ticket count does not. A median $1 run is about $2.9 million of tickets at face value, a $20 run about $51.7 million, a $50 run about $232.7 million, and a $100 run about $564.6 million.
Which scratch-off has the biggest print run?
Georgia prints the largest runs we can measure. Its $2 Jumbo Bucks Classic works out to roughly 252 million tickets, followed by Junior Jumbo Bucks at about 225 million and 5X The Money at about 195 million, both $1 games.
Phil Nageotte is a writer covering scratch-off odds, expected value, prize data, and more. He joined ScratchCheck in 2026 after years of tracking lottery payouts in spreadsheets of his own.
