Birthday Surprise is a $2 scratch-off from the New Jersey Lottery (game #01825) with overall odds of 1 in 4.53 at launch. All 3 top prizes of $10,000 have been claimed — none are left to win. The biggest prize still out there is $1,000, with 2 unclaimed, and an estimated 19% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 149,211 prizes are still out there (it started with 774,657).
Skip the headlines and read the board itself: the most common win still out there on "Birthday Surprise" is a free ticket, and the second-biggest prize left is $500 — twenty of those are still unclaimed. A scratcher IS its prize table, and this page keeps the whole thing counted, level by level. Every line of Birthday Surprise's prize table below is today's tally, not last month's.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | 0 gone | 3 |
| $1,000 | 2 | 24 |
| $500 | 20 | 120 |
| $100 | 221 | 1,741 |
| $50 | 956 | 6,937 |
| $20 | 8,378 | 52,592 |
| $10 | 19,015 | 111,082 |
| $5 | 24,419 | 128,620 |
| $4 | 27,233 | 140,308 |
| 🎟️ Free Ticket | 68,967 | 333,230 |
Prize counts come straight from official New Jersey lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
All 3 top prizes of $10,000 have been claimed, according to official New Jersey lottery data from Sep 1, 2026. The biggest prize still unclaimed is $1,000, with 2 left — see the full table above for every tier.
Birthday Surprise is a $2 scratch-off. It is game #01825 from the New Jersey Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 4.53, counting every prize tier. Odds shift as tickets sell and prizes get claimed — that's exactly what the prize table on this page tracks.
Prize counts come straight from official New Jersey lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.
Prize counts are just the start. SmartScratcher turns them into a ticket value, a 0–100 score, and a straight answer for every game — so you skip the picked-clean ones and play the good ones.
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