The Louisiana Lottery sells Bring Home The Bacon as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $100,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 144,595 per ticket, down from 1 in 197,721. At 1 in 4.30, its overall odds are the longest of Louisiana's 8 $5 games. None of its winning tickets pays $5 or less: every prize is worth more than the ticket.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 198K at launch, about 1 in 145K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $100,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Little of the prize pool has been drained so far.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| $1,000 | 105 | 63 | 60% |
| $250 | 307 | 192 | 63% |
| $100 | 10,911 | 6,571 | 60% |
| $50 | 6,069 | 3,653 | 60% |
| $30 | 5,365 | 3,277 | 61% |
| $20 | 36,160 | 21,952 | 61% |
| $15 | 86,773 | 52,796 | 61% |
| $10 | 130,193 | 79,625 | 61% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on June 25, one $100,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 5. The most recent was on July 22.
- July 22, 20261 claimed · 5 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 2.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, faster than the average for Louisiana's $5 games (1.5% 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
- Louisiana
- Game Number
- 1679
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 6/22/2026
- Payout %
- 62.6%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Louisiana
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant Bucks | 81 | 1 in 4.14 | 62.5% | $100K · 5 | 3.7% |
| Bring Home The Bacon (this game) | 74 | 1 in 4.30 | 62.6% | $100K · 5 | 2.2% |
| $100,000 Cash Stacks | 66 | 1 in 4.25 | 62.2% | $100K · 3 | 3.6% |
| One-Eyed Jack | 55 | 1 in 3.86 | 62.1% | $100K · 2 | 0.9% |
| Fleur De 3'S | 47 | 1 in 4.20 | 62.6% | $133K · 1 | 0.7% |
| Ultimate Dash | 45 | 1 in 3.83 | 59.7% | $100K · 2 | 1.8% |
| 500 Frenzy | 41 | 1 in 4.25 | 62.3% | $500 · 91 | 0.2% |
| Play Oh! | 38 | 1 in 4.15 | 61.1% | $135K · 1 | 1.7% |
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.