🎁 What $3K buys in the United States

10 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $3K. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.

What $3K covers

The numbers behind it

• 🎟️ $3K is 3,000 times the price of a $1 ticket.
• ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 790 tickets on $3,000 FESTIVE FRENZY, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
• 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $24K to win $3K -- which is the whole point of the odds.

Tickets with a $3K top prize

Ticket	Price	Tickets per top prize	Top prizes left
3 Times Lucky #35231 · Mississippi	$1	1 in 9,607,837	1 left
3-2-WON! #1648 · New York	$1	1 in 673,999	3 left
Crawfish Ca$Hout #1658 · Louisiana	$1	—	1 left
Lucky Stars #2340 · Virginia	$1	1 in 726,915	1 left
PIG-TAC-TOE #2670 · Wisconsin	$1	1 in 652,936	None left
TRIPLE MATCH #1659 · New York	$1	1 in 904,977	4 left
Tic Tac Toad #1686 · Louisiana	$1	—	12 left
LOVE TO WIN #2732 · Wisconsin	$2	1 in 363,267	None left
$3,000 FESTIVE FRENZY #1812 · Georgia	$30	1 in 789.99	2979 left
Massive Cash Blowout #54 · North Carolina	$30	1 in 796.56	2675 left

Prizes shown are the advertised top prize before any tax, and the tickets pay smaller prizes far more often than the top one.

Other top prizes here

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Source

• 💼 US Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 — September 2026
• 🏠 US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 median gross rent (table B25064) — September 2026
• 🛒 BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, food at home — September 2026

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