Junior Jumbo Bucks — $1 South Carolina scratch-off ticket
SC · #1666 · $1

Junior Jumbo Bucks#1666

South Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.58

USA percentile

15th

of 2,159 games

Top prizes left

3

$10,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-26

Forecast sellout

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Junior Jumbo Bucks is a $1 scratch-off game from the South Carolina lottery (game #1666). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $10,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the South Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.77. Our models put its expected value at 0.58 per dollar, returning about $0.58 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 6 $1 games on sale in South Carolina.

THE THESIS

At 0.58 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 6 same-price games on sale in South Carolina (median 0.60).

  1. 1.43% of $10,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 15th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$10K
3/7
43%
$500
1/21
$100
39/724
$50
139/2.9K
$25
344/6.7K
$20
985/18.6K
$15
631/10.1K
$10
1.9K/32.2K
$5
1.5K/21.5K
$4
3.5K/53.7K
$2
21.9K/268.6K
$1
43.5K/429.7K

Total unclaimed prize value: $207,322 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,159 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 · 15th
USA: 15th percentileSC: 18th 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 · -28%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 28% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — SC field

74 games · break-even highlighted
$0$6$12$220.000.300.601.10break-even · 1.00 EV/$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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

Junior Jumbo Bucks (#1666): prizes, value and pace

As of October 26, 2026, 3 of the 7 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 74,535 of 844,776 prizes (9%) remain; the thinnest level is $50, with 5% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.58 on average (0.58 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 6 $1 games on sale in South Carolina, below the $1 median of 0.60. Among every South Carolina game with a computable value it is 61 of 74; nationally it sits in the 15th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 5,442 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.

South Carolina also sells another issue of Junior Jumbo Bucks: game #1687. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.

Figures come from the prize data the South Carolina lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.

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