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New Jersey scratch-off statistics

57 active games · average odds 1 in 4.44 · 136 top prizes of $10,000+ unclaimed

New Jersey market snapshot

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

Active games
57
Average overall odds
1 in 4.44
Best odds in state
1 in 3.40
Average prize payout
70.3%
share of sales returned as prizes
Top prizes unclaimed ($10,000+)
136
1 games have none left
Unclaimed top-prize money
$58.4M
floor, top tier of $10,000+ games
Average ValueScore
51.1
57 games scored
Launched in 90 days
16
0 ended

What New Jersey 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 tickets1
2%
1 in 4.4265.0%25.6
$2 tickets6
11%
1 in 4.5966.3%33.4
$3 tickets3
5%
1 in 4.6365.0%28.1
$5 tickets19
33%
1 in 4.4269.1%46.7
$10 tickets13
23%
1 in 4.6870.4%49.4
$20 tickets9
16%
1 in 4.4873.8%68.7
$25 tickets1
2%
1 in 4.3975.2%78.9
$30 tickets5
9%
1 in 3.5776.0%74.9
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 New Jersey's yet. Everything above comes from the live game catalog instead.

How fast New Jersey 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 63 tracked games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, 93 claimed in total over the window. No other site publishes this.

Mar 20266
Apr 202620
May 202618
Jun 202622
Jul 20267
Aug 20269
Sep 202611

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 New Jersey

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 New Jersey means good relative to what else is on the shelf here.

Strong (60+)
22
39% of scored games
Fair (40-59)
14
25%
Weak (under 40)
21
37%

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

Common questions

How many scratch-off games does New Jersey have?

New Jersey currently has 57 active scratch-off games across 8 price points, from $1 to $30. 16 launched in the last 90 days.

What are the average odds on a New Jersey scratch-off?

Across all 57 active games the average published overall odds are 1 in 4.44. The single best game right now is 1 in 3.40. Overall odds count every prize tier, including prizes equal to the ticket price.

How much unclaimed top-prize money is left in New Jersey?

At least $58.4M in top prizes is still unclaimed across New Jersey's active games, covering 136 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 New Jerseylottery'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.