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

How We Calculate Value & ROI

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

• Top prize — the game’s largest advertised prize, as published by the Maine Lottery.
• Top prizes left — how many of those the Maine 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.
• Published odds — the Maine Lottery’s original “1 in X” chance of winning any prize, which includes winning back just the ticket price. These are the odds set when the game was printed, not a recalculation of the odds among unsold tickets.

Why there’s no ROI for Maine

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 Maine Lottery publishes unclaimed counts for each game’s top prize tiers 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 Maine, 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, whatever its published odds say.

We read official Maine 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.