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South Carolina scratch-off statistics

34 active games · average odds 1 in 4.49 · 71 top prizes of $10,000+ unclaimed

South Carolina market snapshot

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

Active games
34
Average overall odds
1 in 4.49
Best odds in state
1 in 3.09
Average prize payout
70.5%
share of sales returned as prizes
Top prizes unclaimed ($10,000+)
71
Unclaimed top-prize money
$39.9M
floor, top tier of $10,000+ games
Average ValueScore
50.3
34 games scored
Launched in 90 days
14
0 ended

What South Carolina 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 tickets4
12%
1 in 5.0063.6%21.5
$2 tickets7
21%
1 in 4.5968.0%37.3
$3 tickets2
6%
1 in 4.0268.8%50.8
$5 tickets9
26%
1 in 4.0469.7%53.0
$10 tickets9
26%
1 in 4.9174.4%62.6
$20 tickets3
9%
1 in 3.9877.2%74.1
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 South Carolina's yet. Everything above comes from the live game catalog instead.

How fast South Carolina 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 30 tracked games whose top prize is $10,000 or more, 95 claimed in total over the window. No other site publishes this.

Mar 202612
Apr 202612
May 202613
Jun 202612
Jul 202612
Aug 202618
Sep 202616

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 South Carolina

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 South Carolina means good relative to what else is on the shelf here.

Strong (60+)
11
32% of scored games
Fair (40-59)
13
38%
Weak (under 40)
10
29%

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

Common questions

How many scratch-off games does South Carolina have?

South Carolina currently has 34 active scratch-off games across 6 price points, from $1 to $20. 14 launched in the last 90 days.

What are the average odds on a South Carolina scratch-off?

Across all 34 active games the average published overall odds are 1 in 4.49. The single best game right now is 1 in 3.09. Overall odds count every prize tier, including prizes equal to the ticket price.

How much unclaimed top-prize money is left in South Carolina?

At least $39.9M in top prizes is still unclaimed across South Carolina's active games, covering 71 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 South Carolinalottery'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.