Sapphire 7'sNew Jersey Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Sapphire 7's costs $2 a ticket from the New Jersey Lottery. By our estimate the $20,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,002,752 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,284,990. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 513,996 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.3M at launch, about 1 in 1.0M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $20,000 prizes have been claimed.
- A leaner 22% chance of winning per ticket (1 in 4.64), below most games.
- The larger prizes are well stocked, with plenty of top and mid-tier winners still out there.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,000 | 1 in 1,285,350 | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 856,900 | 6 | 4 | 67% |
| $500 | 1 in 61,207 | 84 | 51 | 61% |
| $100 | 1 in 2,252 | 2,283 | 1,257 | 55% |
| $40 | 1 in 601 | 8,554 | 4,808 | 56% |
| $20 | 1 in 75 | 68,552 | 39,176 | 57% |
| $10 | 1 in 30 | 171,380 | 98,502 | 57% |
| $5 | 1 in 18 | 291,369 | 170,570 | 59% |
| $4 | 1 in 27 | 188,508 | 110,645 | 59% |
| $2 | 1 in 14 | 377,010 | 223,315 | 59% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on September 3, one $20,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 3. The most recent was on September 8.
- September 8, 20261 claimed · 3 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 6% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 5 times the average for New Jersey's $2 games (1.2% 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
- New Jersey
- Game Number
- 1988
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 9/2/2026
- Payout %
- 65.6%
- Data Source
- State lottery
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $2 ticket in New Jersey
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Money Spectacular | 48 | 1 in 4.76 | 66.0% | $30K · 5 | 2.5% |
| Sapphire 7's (this game) | 38 | 1 in 4.64 | 65.6% | $20K · 3 | 6.0% |
| Birthday Surprise | 33 | 1 in 4.53 | 66.6% | $10K · 2 | 1.0% |
| It Takes 2 | 32 | 1 in 4.44 | 66.8% | $10K · 3 | 0.2% |
| Money Mania | 23 | 1 in 4.41 | 66.5% | $10K · 1 | 1.9% |
| Big Money Spectacular (Game #1964) | 13 | 1 in 4.76 | 66.0% | $30K · 0 | 0.5% |
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.