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Best $1 Texas Scratch-Off Tickets Right Now

Official Texas Lottery data as of July 27, 2026 · Updated daily · 4 active $1 games ranked

All figures are statewide estimates from official Texas Lottery prize-claims data. This does not predict what’s in any specific store’s packs. Every scratch-off is negative expected value — this helps you spend smarter, not win more.

All 4 active $1 Texas Lottery scratch-off games, ranked by estimated value — how much prize money is still on the table per dollar spent. Top of the list right now: Easy...1-2-3.

The $1 tier prints more tickets for a given budget than any other price, but it's also the lowest-payout tier the Texas Lottery sells — expect somewhere around 60¢ back per dollar in prizes, the low end of the whole lineup. It's the cheapest way to buy a few minutes of scratching, not the smartest way to get money back.

Best $1 scratch-offs, ranked

#1 · Easy...1-2-3
$500 top prize · 6 of 14 still unclaimed
Top prizes are 1.3x more densely packed in remaining tickets than at launch, with 6 of 14 still unclaimed.
Prize value: 0.98× launch67% of tickets est. sold
#2 · Cash Frenzy
$500 top prize · 5 of 14 still unclaimed
Still favorable among active games at this price.
Prize value: 0.97× launch63% of tickets est. sold
#3 · Winning 7s
$500 top prize · 4 of 21 still unclaimed
Still favorable among active games at this price.
Prize value: 0.96× launch77% of tickets est. sold
#4 · 9s In A Line
$500 top prize · 31 of 163 still unclaimed
About 53 cents of prize value left per dollar - top of what's still favorable at this price.
Live top-prize odds: 1 in 145,226 — 1.2× worse than the 1 in 120,138 printed at launch
Prize value: 0.88× launch~53¢ back per $177% of tickets est. sold

How this ranking works

Because every game here costs the same $1, we rank by value left on the table: how much of the original prize money is still unclaimed relative to tickets sold, and how the live top-prize odds compare to the odds printed at launch.

Live top-prize odds show your current 1-in-X shot at the top prize and how it stacks up against launch; prize value above 1.0× means the remaining tickets are richer than the launch average. All figures are statewide estimates and do not change the fixed odds on a single ticket.

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