Numbers you can cite, data you can download
Top Lottery Games tracks 2,613 active scratch-off games in 40 states, rebuilt every day from official state lottery prize data. Last refresh: Sep 15, 2026. Everything on this page is free to use with attribution and a link.
The dataset
One CSV, every active game: price, top prize, overall odds, expected return, top prizes remaining, estimated tickets left, and end dates. Regenerated daily from the same database that powers the site.
License: free for editorial and research use with attribution to “Top Lottery Games” and a link to toplotterygames.com. The methodology is public: how we calculate returns.
Story-ready angles, updated daily
- 360 games in 28 states are still sold with zero top prizes left — their faces advertise $257,466,898 in jackpots no one can win. The dead tickets list →
- 16 jackpots are statistically overdue — heavily sold games whose top prizes have been hit far less often than sales predict. The overdue list →
- Every state ranked, every day — which tickets pay back the most per dollar right now, in any of the 40 states we track. The rankings →
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Boilerplate
Top Lottery Games (toplotterygames.com) is an independent site that ranks U.S. scratch-off lottery tickets by expected return, using prize data collected daily from official state lottery sources. It was built by Riley Johnson, an engineer in Oklahoma, and is not affiliated with any state lottery.
Contact
Riley Johnson — press@toplotterygames.com · on X at @TopLotteryGames. Replies same day for working journalists. More about the site and who runs it →