🟡 FIRST FIVE MINUTES PICK YOUR STATE SORT BY SCORE CHECK THE TEMPERATURE SHOP YOUR SHELF SAVE YOUR FAVORITES 🟡 FIRST FIVE MINUTES PICK YOUR STATE SORT BY SCORE CHECK THE TEMPERATURE
🧭 A quick-start guide

New state on the app? Here’s your first five minutes.

Welcome to Michigan, Maryland, Washington, South Carolina, Virginia, Missouri — and everyone else just joining. The app does the math; this is how to read it. Five moves, five minutes, and the scratcher case at your corner store stops being a mystery.

📅 Guide ⏱️ 5 minute read 📱 Works in all 15 states
The Routine

Five moves. That’s the whole tutorial.

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Pick your state

The menu at the top

Tap the state selector up top and choose yours. Everything in the app — every list, every score, every prize count — instantly switches to your state’s games. That’s it. That’s the setup.

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Sort by SmartScratcher Score

The default view, for good reason

Every game gets one number, 0 to 100, built from what’s actually left in it today — remaining prizes, estimated tickets left, current value. The list opens ranked. The top of the list is the point of the app.

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03

Check the temperature

Hot means loaded, cold means drained

The pepper-and-flame icons are the fast read: a game running hot still has its good prizes in play. A cold one has been picked over — but it’s still sitting in the case, still selling, still taking money. Now you know which is which before you pay.

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04

Shop your shelf

The price filters up top

If you’re a $5 player, tap the $5 chip and compare $5 games against $5 games. A great $5 ticket and a mediocre $20 ticket are different questions — the filters keep you comparing apples to apples.

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05

Save your favorites

The heart, plus the Daily Deep Dive

Tap the heart on games you actually buy. Then check back each morning — the data refreshes daily, and each game’s Daily Deep Dive tells you what changed overnight in plain English. Yesterday’s smart pick isn’t automatically today’s.

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Same app. Same tools. New states.

If you're new here, this is what SmartScratcher actually does.

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The SmartScratcher Score

Every active game gets a single ranking based on prizes remaining, estimated tickets left, and overall value. No math required.

02

Hot / Cold Temperature

At-a-glance signals for which games are heating up (good prizes still in play) and which are running cold (drained out, but still selling).

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Estimated Value

The estimated return per ticket at the game's current state — not the launch state. Because that number changes every single day.

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Daily Updates

The app pulls fresh prize data from each state lottery every day. Wake up, check the app, see what changed.

Five minutes from now —

You’ll know more than the person in line ahead of you. Promise.

Free to download. Premium features include a 3-day free trial. If you've already got the app, just hit the state selector — the new ones are right there.

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