$200,000 PaydaySouth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$200,000 Payday costs $5 a ticket from the South Carolina Lottery. Top prizes have been claimed faster than tickets sold, so the $200,000 prize now runs about 1 in 1,441,224 by our estimate, against 1 in 629,071 at launch. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 16,468 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 629K at launch, about 1 in 1.4M now. The $200,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- This game is partway played through, with a fair share of prizes remaining.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.71 per $1 spent.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $200,000 | 1 in 600,000 | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 17,143 | 186 | 82 | 44% |
| $500 | 1 in 4,286 | 735 | 325 | 44% |
| $200 | 1 in 5,455 | 578 | 243 | 42% |
| $100 | 1 in 337 | 9,339 | 4,136 | 44% |
| $50 | 1 in 244 | 12,871 | 5,678 | 44% |
| $40 | 1 in 126 | 24,929 | 11,085 | 44% |
| $25 | 1 in 241 | 13,085 | 5,833 | 45% |
| $20 | 1 in 80 | 39,396 | 17,739 | 45% |
| $15 | 1 in 30 | 104,879 | 47,289 | 45% |
| $10 | 1 in 13 | 249,265 | 113,188 | 45% |
| $5 | 1 in 9 | 341,024 | 159,268 | 47% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on August 6, 4 $200,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on October 12.
- October 12, 20261 claimed · 1 left
- September 17, 20261 claimed · 2 left
- September 13, 20261 claimed · 3 left
- August 31, 20261 claimed · 4 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 3.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, faster than the average for South Carolina's $5 games (2.1% 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
- South Carolina
- Game Number
- 1690
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 8/4/2026
- Payout %
- 71.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $5 ticket in South Carolina
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant Jumbo Bucks | 77 | 1 in 3.97 | 71.7% | $250K · 5 | 1.8% |
| Triple Red 777 ($5) | 69 | 1 in 3.98 | 71.0% | $200K · 4 | - |
| In the Green | 59 | 1 in 3.95 | 71.0% | $200K · 2 | 1.2% |
| THE PRICE IS RIGHT™ | 58 | 1 in 3.94 | 69.6% | $200K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $200,000 Payday (this game) | 54 | 1 in 3.95 | 71.0% | $200K · 1 | 3.4% |
| SUPER LOTERIA™ | 53 | 1 in 3.97 | 71.0% | $200K · 1 | 2.0% |
| High Voltage | 50 | 1 in 3.87 | 67.3% | $200K · 2 | 4.8% |
| Fivefold Lucky | 44 | 1 in 3.95 | 71.0% | $200K · 1 | 2.2% |
| Hit $250 | 31 | 1 in 4.79 | 71.0% | $250 · 5,860 | 2.4% |
| Star Power | 15 | 1 in 3.99 | 63.9% | $200K · 0 | 1.0% |
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.