The Scratch-Offs With the Most Unclaimed Top Prizes Right Now

Most players pick scratch-offs by price, design, or habit. The players who consistently get better value do one extra thing: they check how many top prizes are still available before they buy. The Top Prizes Remaining page on ScratchCheck ranks every active game across all US states by how many top-tier prizes are still unclaimed, updated from official lottery sources. Right now there are 2,893 active games with prizes still on the table. Here's how to use the page and what the current data shows across each prize tier.

Why Remaining Prizes Matter

The odds printed on the back of a scratch-off ticket are calculated at launch based on the full print run. They don't update as prizes get claimed. A game that launched with five $1 million top prizes and has had four of them claimed still shows the original odds on the ticket. The effective probability of winning the top prize has dropped by 80%, but the ticket looks identical.

Remaining prize data is the live correction to that static figure. It tells you what's actually left in the pool, not what was there when the game was printed. Combined with overall odds and payout rate, it's the third leg of the value analysis that separates informed buying from guessing.

The Overall Leader: California's Spread Game Dominates

The top of the national remaining prizes list is currently dominated by spread-format games with very large prize pools. California's $100 or $200 Frenzy leads the entire country with 298,879 top prizes of $200 remaining out of a national total of 2,117,268 top prizes across all active games. A second older edition of the same game has 96,264 remaining. These are spread games with $200 top prizes, not big-jackpot games, so the large remaining count reflects the structure rather than opportunity.

The most intact prizes nationally across all tiers can be filtered by prize size on the Top Prizes Remaining page. Here's what stands out right now at each level.

$10M+ Top Prize: North Carolina Leads

North Carolina's $100,000 Cash Payday leads the $10M+ tier nationally with 66 top prizes of $10 million remaining. At $30 with a VS of 84.5, odds of 1 in 3.49, and 66 intact top prizes, this is one of the strongest combinations of remaining prize depth and solid base structure anywhere in the country right now.

Florida's $500,000 Cash Blowout ($50) follows with 55 remaining top prizes of $50 million. Massachusetts' $500,000 Frenzy ($50) has 49 remaining. Maryland's $100,000 Ca$h ($30, VS 85.7) has 45 remaining with excellent base odds of 1 in 2.79. Iowa's $100,000 Mega Crossword ($10) has 37 remaining with tight 1 in 3.29 odds and a VS of 81.1.

Iowa's showing here is consistent with what we've covered before: four of Iowa's active games rank in the national top 10 on combined odds and prize availability. Maryland punches above its weight at the premium tier, with $100,000 Ca$h's combination of 45 remaining prizes and 1 in 2.79 odds making it one of the best single-game values in the country right now.

$5M-$9.9M Top Prize: North Carolina and Arizona Lead

North Carolina's $50,000 Payout ($20) leads this tier with 42 remaining top prizes of $5 million. Iowa's $50,000 Super Crossword ($5) has 20 remaining with 1 in 3.26 odds. Arizona's Rodeo Riches Crossword ($5) has 18 remaining at 1 in 3.43 odds.

The crossword format's prevalence at the top of the remaining prizes rankings is notable. At the $5M-$10M tier, crossword games account for six of the top ten nationally by remaining count. This is consistent with the finding from the crossword vs. number-matching post: crossword games are structurally better suited to maintaining intact prize pools because their prize tables support broader distributions.

$1M-$4.9M Top Prize: Virginia's Spread Game Stands Out

Virginia's Cash Surge ($50) leads this tier with 308 remaining prizes of $1 million. This is a spread-format $50 game, similar in structure to the California Frenzy games at the top of the overall list. The 308 remaining prizes reflect a very large original print run with a $1 million ceiling rather than a game with an unusually intact prize pool. Worth knowing about, but understand what you're buying.

Iowa's $30,000 Crossword ($3) has 52 top prizes of $3 million remaining. California's LOTERÍA™ ($3) and Fireball Bingo ($3) each have 40 remaining at $2-$3 million tops. For players looking for a $3 game with significant prize availability, those three are the best options nationally right now.

The Low Tier: Best Value Among Spread Games

The sub-$1,000 prize tier is dominated by spread games in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Massachusetts. Pennsylvania's $250 Blowout ($10) stands out here with 50,778 remaining top prizes of $250 and the tightest odds of any game in this list at 1 in 2.89. Pennsylvania's $500 Blowout ($20) has 43,070 remaining at 1 in 2.72 odds. Both are structurally excellent games with enormous prize pools intact.

South Carolina's Hit $500 ($10) leads its tier with 51,737 top prizes of $500 remaining. These Pennsylvania and South Carolina games are among the clearest spread-game value plays available nationally: tight odds, strong payout rates, and prize pools measured in the tens of thousands.

How to Use the Page

The Top Prizes Remaining page lets you filter by state, ticket price, and top prize size. The prize tier filters ($100K+, $1M+, $5M+, $10M+) are the most useful for players who care specifically about the big prize. Filtering to your state and sorting by remaining count shows you which active games in your market still have the most to offer at the top end.

Use it alongside ValueScore and overall odds rather than in isolation. A game with 300 top prizes remaining but 1 in 9 overall odds (like many of the spread-format games at the top of the raw list) is a different product than a game with 12 top prizes remaining and 1 in 2.94 odds. Both have value, but for different kinds of players. The remaining prize count tells you what's available. The odds and payout rate tell you whether the structure is worth buying into.