$20,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE 2ND ED.Connecticut Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$20,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE 2ND ED. costs $2 a ticket from the Connecticut Lottery. No $2 ticket in Connecticut has better overall odds: 1 in 3.82, against 5 others at that price. On average it pays back about $0.58 per $1, $0.06 less than the median $2 game in Connecticut. 50% of its winning tickets pay $2 or less, no more than the ticket cost. With a ValueScore of 20/100 (Below Avg), it is 6th of the 6 active $2 games in Connecticut.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 3.3M at launch, about 1 in 2.4M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $20,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Most of the larger top and mid-tier prizes have already been won.
- Low inventory: most of this game's prizes have already been claimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $20,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $10,000 | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| $200 | 1,408 | 271 | 19% |
| $40 | 14,750 | 3,014 | 20% |
| $15 | 99,513 | 21,084 | 21% |
| $10 | 198,817 | 43,062 | 22% |
| $5 | 397,842 | 93,330 | 23% |
| $4 | 597,100 | 139,390 | 23% |
| $2 | 1,292,990 | 321,107 | 25% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $20,000 top prize left on March 6, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Connecticut's $2 games (1.7% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- Connecticut
- Game Number
- 1725
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 9/6/2022
- Payout %
- 57.7%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $2 ticket in Connecticut
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner Winner Chicken Dinner | 49 | 1 in 4.72 | 64.5% | $20K · 4 | 2.8% |
| $2 MONOPOLY | 49 | 1 in 4.05 | 64.1% | $10K · 4 | 1.9% |
| 7-11-21® 10X® | 35 | 1 in 4.21 | 64.0% | $10K · 2 | 2.5% |
| $100 Loaded! | 28 | 1 in 5.31 | 63.9% | $100 · 4,500 | 1.0% |
| Green & Gold | 27 | 1 in 4.03 | 64.5% | $10K · 4 | 1.3% |
| $20,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE 2ND ED. (this game) | 20 | 1 in 3.82 | 57.7% | $20K · 1 | 0.3% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.