In the Green — $5 South Carolina scratch-off ticket
SC · #1618 · $5

In the Green

South Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

64th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

2

$200,000 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.

In the Green is a $5 scratch-off game from the South Carolina (game #1618). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $200 remain unclaimed, as published by the South Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.95. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.50% of $200,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 64th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$200K
2/4
50%
$1K
75/158
$500
660/1.4K
$200
444/967
$100
3.3K/7.0K
$75
1.5K/3.3K
$50
7.8K/16.8K
$30
10.4K/22.3K
$20
39.4K/84.0K
$15
52.7K/112.0K
$10
113.1K/238.0K
$5
177.6K/364.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $5.64M — 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 · 64th
USA: 64th percentileSC: 65th 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 · -1%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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