Understand how the top 10 Iowa scratch-off tickets rank by current Return on Investment.
The ten Iowa scratch tickets on sale with the highest current winning Return on Investment appear below. Each card gives the figure the ticket started with, where it stands now, the change between the two and the ticket cost.
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Iowa scratch tickets rise and fall in this ranking as prizes are claimed.
The Iowa Lottery sold its first tickets in 1985, and a scratch game was the first product it offered. Scratch Ticket Genie gathers the published prize data for the Iowa scratch tickets on sale today and ranks the ten with the highest current winning Return on Investment.
Return on Investment puts the prize pool published for an Iowa scratch ticket against the cost of its tickets. A ticket launches with an initial figure, and the current figure changes as prizes are claimed. The measure helps compare tickets with one another. It is not an expected return, and it reveals nothing about any single ticket.
Survey the Iowa scratch tickets ranked in the top ten for ROI, using prize information from the Iowa Lottery. Every number is confirmed with official prize records first. Readers can see prices and ROI side by side in one place. ROI is a comparison tool, not a forecast.
It ranks Iowa scratch tickets by current winning Return on Investment, calculated from the prize information the Iowa Lottery publishes.
General Iowa data refreshes every three days. New ticket releases, grand prize claims and Top 10 ranking shifts are not held to that schedule: they update immediately, on the same day, bypassing the three-day cycle.
No. The ranking is only a comparison of prize data, and a ticket's result was fixed at printing.
Iowa has many scratch tickets on sale at once. Ten is enough to compare without overwhelming the page.
The Iowa data comes from official Iowa Lottery sources, and the lottery's website is ialottery.com. Each figure is verified against the lottery's own data before it is ranked, and numbers from other sites are never reused.
No. Scratch Ticket Genie provides lottery information only. Iowa scratch tickets are sold by the Iowa Lottery and its licensed retailers.
Use the current top 10 Iowa scratch tickets above to compare initial ROI, current ROI, ROI change and ticket cost. All figures come from official Iowa Lottery sources.