Giant Jumbo Bucks — $5 South Carolina scratch-off ticket
SC · #1699 · $5

Giant Jumbo Bucks

South Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.72

USA percentile

70th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

6

$250,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Giant Jumbo Bucks is a $5 scratch-off game from the South Carolina (game #1699). As of the most recent daily scan, 6 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the South Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.97. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.72 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $250,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 70th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$250K
6/6
100%
$1K
54/54
$500
374/393
$250
581/590
$100
18.2K/18.7K
$50
109.0K/111.8K
$25
115.5K/118.5K
$10
519.8K/533.1K
$5
693.8K/711.1K

Total unclaimed prize value: $20.71M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active SC games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
SC median0.66 EV/$
YOU · 70th
USA: 70th percentileSC: 71th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · +101%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 101% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — SC field

68 games · break-even highlighted
$0$6$12$220.000.300.601.06break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

No other active SC games currently clear break-even.

Top-prize claim cadence · the roll

Top-prize claim history is not published for this state.

States that report individual claim events (TX, NY, PA, FL, NC) will show a full timeline here. This game's state does not currently publish that data.

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