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Minnesota scratch-off statistics

40 active games · average odds 1 in 3.85 · 231 top prizes of $10,000+ unclaimed

Minnesota market snapshot

Pulled from our catalog on September 23, 2026. Averages cover every active game, not a sample.

Active games
40
Average overall odds
1 in 3.85
Best odds in state
1 in 2.76
Average prize payout
68.1%
share of sales returned as prizes
Top prizes unclaimed ($10,000+)
231
Unclaimed top-prize money
$14.3M
floor, top tier of $10,000+ games
Average ValueScore
54.6
40 games scored
Launched in 90 days
11
0 ended

What Minnesota charges, and what you get for it

Higher-priced tickets almost always carry better overall odds and a higher payout rate, because the prize pool scales faster than the ticket price. This table is the state's own catalog, grouped by price.

PriceGamesShare of catalogAvg overall oddsAvg prize payoutAvg ValueScore
$1 tickets2
5%
1 in 4.0463.1%6.2
$2 tickets5
13%
1 in 3.7565.1%38.1
$3 tickets8
20%
1 in 3.7065.9%46.8
$5 tickets10
25%
1 in 3.7568.0%58.4
$10 tickets8
20%
1 in 4.1370.0%61.6
$20 tickets5
13%
1 in 4.3272.0%74.5
$50 tickets2
5%
1 in 2.8275.3%78.8
Sales figures not published here yet
We only print sales figures we can tie to a specific page of a lottery's annual report, and we have not verified Minnesota's yet. Everything above comes from the live game catalog instead.

How fast Minnesota top prizes get claimed

We snapshot every game's remaining prize counts daily, so we can show depletion rather than just the current number. This counts the drop in top prizes remaining each month across 35 tracked games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, 122 claimed in total over the window. No other site publishes this.

Mar 202618
Apr 202630
May 202624
Jun 20269
Jul 202611
Aug 202620
Sep 202610

Top prizes claimed per month. A game that launched mid-window only contributes claims recorded after its first snapshot, so its opening month reads low.

ValueScore spread across Minnesota

Our ValueScore™ rates each game 0-100 on expected value, prize quality, win frequency and remaining inventory. Scores are ranked within the state, so a 60 in Minnesota means good relative to what else is on the shelf here.

Strong (60+)
17
43% of scored games
Fair (40-59)
14
35%
Weak (under 40)
9
23%

See the ranked list on the Minnesota ValueScore ranking, or compare against other states on the national stats page.

Common questions

How many scratch-off games does Minnesota have?

Minnesota currently has 40 active scratch-off games across 7 price points, from $1 to $50. 11 launched in the last 90 days.

What are the average odds on a Minnesota scratch-off?

Across all 40 active games the average published overall odds are 1 in 3.85. The single best game right now is 1 in 2.76. Overall odds count every prize tier, including prizes equal to the ticket price.

How much unclaimed top-prize money is left in Minnesota?

At least $14.3M in top prizes is still unclaimed across Minnesota's active games, covering 231 individual top prizes. Treat that as a floor. We count only games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, only games whose lottery publishes a remaining count, and only the top tier of each game.

How these numbers are built
Game counts, odds, payout rates and remaining prizes come from the Minnesotalottery's own game pages, re-scraped daily. Top-prize figures count only games whose top prize is $10,000 or more: a game topping out at $100 can print hundreds of thousands of them, which would swamp every real jackpot in the total. Monthly claim counts come from our snapshot archive, which starts in March 2026. Sales figures are typed in by hand from annual reports and each row links the document it came from. Where a lottery does not publish a figure we show a dash rather than filling the gap, which is why some columns are sparse for some states.