Best Delaware Scratch Off Tickets: Odds, Remaining Prizes & More

How We Calculate Value & ROI

Every game on this page shows the top prize and how many top prizes are left. Here’s what each one means, and why Delaware games don’t show an ROI.

• Top prize — the game’s largest advertised prize, as published by the Delaware Lottery.
• Top prizes left — how many of those the Delaware Lottery has not yet recorded as claimed. An unclaimed prize may already be sitting on a ticket someone has bought, so this doesn’t guarantee one is still on a shelf.

Why there’s no ROI for Delaware

ROI is the estimated average gain or loss against what you spend: −20% means roughly 80¢ back per $1. To work it out we need a game’s whole prize table: what every tier pays, how many of each prize were printed, and how many are still unclaimed. We add up the value of every prize still out there and divide it by our estimate of the tickets still unsold.

The Delaware Lottery publishes remaining counts for each game’s top prizes only, not the full prize table. Without that, any ROI we showed would mostly reflect the missing data rather than the game, so we leave it off instead of publishing a number we can’t stand behind.

For Delaware, top prizes left is the most useful figure on the page. A game whose top prizes are nearly all claimed has little left at the top end.

We read official Delaware Lottery prize reports daily. Read our full methodology for how we source data and calculate expected value and ROI in the states that publish full prize tables.