about Instant Scratch-Its
Instant Scratch-Its are a fun 'instant win' scratch lottery game from NSW Lotteries. Unlike traditional lottery style games, players do not have to pick numbers, or wait for a draw to be conducted to see if they have won a prize. They simply scratch to find out their ticket outcome instantly!
History
NSW Lotteries Instant Scratchies was first introduced to Australia on 15 November 1982 as a replacement for the $1 Draw Lottery. The very first game in NSW was called "Harbour Bridge" and cost just $1 to play. The top prize was $10,000.
In January 2012, NSW Lotteries updated the brand name to Instant Scratch-Its and introduced a new brand logo.
Over the years, different style games have been introduced at different price points to the portfolio of games to meet demand in the NSW market.
Today there are seven different price points (i.e. $1.10, $2, $3, $4, $5, $10 and $15) offering a variety of different styles of games including standard games, Long Play and Set for Life (previously known as Win for Life).
Instant Scratch-Its games are changed frequently to keep players interested in the product and to increase their enjoyment. Each year over forty-five new Instant Scratch-Its games enter the market at various price levels offering players the opportunity to win top prizes from $20,000 to $1,000,000 instantly! The $3 Live the Life and $5 Set For Life® games offer a top prize over multiple years and are paid in regular instalments.
Instant Scratch-Its tickets are a unique form of instant lottery where the prizes are all determined at the time of printing. NSW Lotteries prints all Instant Scratch-Its games at a secure facility using some of the most advanced and secure printing processes in the world. When games leave the production line they are already sealed with latex and neither NSW Lotteries, the printers nor our Retailers are able to determine which tickets are winners.
Instant Scratch-Its Pools
Tickets for a particular game are printed in "pools" with an identical prize structure for each pool. Some games have up to two pools each broken into "books" of tickets that are randomly distributed to the NSW Lotteries retail network of around 1,600 Outlets.
Because of the secure nature of the game and the random distribution of tickets, there is no way of knowing exactly what prizes are still available to be won. In addition, winning tickets may have been purchased but not yet claimed.
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Price Point
|
Top Prize |
Tickets per Book |
Tickets per Pool |
Retailer Commission |
| $1.10 |
$20,000 |
200 |
1,500,000 |
0.10c |
| $2 |
$50,000 |
100 |
1,000,000 |
0.16c |
$3
Live The Life |
$5,000 per month
for 10 years |
50 |
1,000,000 |
0.24c |
| $4 |
$85,000 |
50 |
750,000 |
0.32c |
| $5 |
$100,000 |
50 |
750,000 |
0.40c |
| $5 Crosswords |
$100,000 |
50 |
1,020,000 |
0.40c |
| $5 Set for Life® |
$100,000 per year
for 10 years |
50 |
1,020,000 |
0.40c |
| $10 |
$250,000 |
20 |
300,000 |
0.80c |
| $15 |
$1,000,000 |
20 |
500,000 |
0.90c |
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"Pool sizes may vary - refer to individual games by clicking here, then selecting the required game image"
