Ranked by real after-tax expected value from Tennessee's current prizes-remaining data — not the printed odds the lottery wants you to see. Updated November 15, 2026.
Every scratch-off loses money on average. The only useful question is which ones are least bad today — and which have quietly become a rip-off because their top prizes are already gone.
Tennessee doesn't publish the full prize data needed for an honest expected-value ranking, so we don't fake one. We track 105 live games with real odds and top-prize depletion instead.
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The Tennessee Lottery prints an "overall odds" number on every ticket — but that number counts winning your money back as a "win," and it never changes even after every real prize is claimed. Every day we pull Tennessee's official prizes-remaining data and compute the after-tax expected value of each game from the prizes actually still unclaimed.
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