Bits & Odds

$300,000 JACKPOT — $30 Iowa Scratch Game #798

As of October 14, 2026, $300,000 JACKPOT ($30, #798) still has 4 of 5 $300,000 top prizes unclaimed (80% of those printed). It is #17 of 50 Iowa scratch games on our list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the share of their top prizes still unclaimed, then by the better overall odds). Iowa prints its overall odds as 1 in 2.29.

Top prizes left
4 of 5
$300,000 each
Overall odds
1 in 2.29
as Iowa prints them
Ticket price
$30
game #798
Levels published
9
the top nine prize levels only

No payout figure, on purpose. Iowa publishes only the prizes of $50 and up for each game, with how many have been claimed and how many are left. A payout, an expected value or the odds today each need every prize level and how many were printed, so for Iowa we show exactly what its lottery publishes and compute nothing from it. A figure built from part of a table would be wrong, not rough: it is how one state's partial table produced games that appeared to pay back more than they cost. How we treat partial prize tables.

Prizes remaining, as Iowa publishes them

This is a partial prize table. Iowa publishes the top nine prize levels of $300,000 JACKPOT and how many of each were printed and are left. The levels below are not published, so they are not here. Nothing in this table is an estimate. For the complete prize structure see the game's page on the Iowa Lottery site.

$300,000 JACKPOT: published prize levels
PrizeRemaining PrintedClaimed
$300,000 4 51
$30,000 50 577
$1,000 498 57880
$500 2,517 2,964447
$300 3,798 4,458660
$150 7,571 8,8761,305
$100 12,601 14,7912,190
$60 29,579 34,6665,087
$50 303,472 355,46051,988

Read October 14, 2026; Iowa dates its counts October 12, 2026. Counts change when the Lottery processes a claim, not when a ticket is sold.

$300,000 JACKPOT: common questions

How many $300,000 top prizes are left in $300,000 JACKPOT?
4 of the 5 printed, as of October 14, 2026.
What are the odds of winning on $300,000 JACKPOT?
Iowa prints overall odds of 1 in 2.29 for $300,000 JACKPOT: the chance a ticket wins any prize at all, fixed when the game was printed. It does not publish the odds of each prize level, so we do not show any.
Is $300,000 JACKPOT a good scratch game to buy?
We cannot price it. Iowa publishes only the prizes of $50 and up for each game, with how many have been claimed and how many are left, and a value needs the whole table. What the figures do say is that its top prize is still in play (4 of 5 left).
How does $300,000 JACKPOT compare with other $30 Iowa scratch games?
2 of the 2 $30 games Iowa lists still have a top prize unclaimed. $300,000 JACKPOT is #17 of 50 on our Iowa list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the share of their top prizes still unclaimed, then by the better overall odds).
Where do these numbers come from?
From the Iowa Lottery's own prize figures, read daily. We show its prize levels of $50 and up as published and calculate nothing from them.

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