£2 National Lottery Scratch Cards
The most common and popular of the National Lottery scratch cards are without a doubt the range of £2 scratch cards.
It’s not just because they’re affordable - £2 scratch cards are also far better value than £1 cards, as they have a higher payback percentage. All £2 cards have more chances to win than £1 cards and most of them have at least 2 games included.
Here’s the Lemons & Sevens £2 national lottery scratch card review, where we cover the £2 scratch cards with the highest chances of winning, the highest payback, and the best jackpot chances.
Chances of winning on a £2 scratch card
It is important to remember that your chances of winning on any scratch card are slim but £2 cards will in general have a 1 in 4 chance of being a winner.
This means for every 4 cards you play you should have 1 which is a winner, on average. However, this also includes break even cards where you just win the cost of the scratch card back. If you are looking to make a profit, then the chances of winning on a £2 scratch card is roughly 1 in 6.5.
Payback Percentage on £2 Scratch Cards
Of the scratch cards we played, the payback percentage was always between 65% and 69% for £2 scratch cards. This means that for every £1 you spend on a £2 scratch card you can expect to win back 65p - 69p on average.
When looking for the ideal £2 scratch card to play a higher payback percentage is always better.
Best £2 Scratch card Payback Rates:
Here are the £2 national lottery scratch cards that have the best payback rates:
£250k Gold (69.50%)
£500k Red (68.01%)
£100 Loaded (65.98%)
£2 Scratch Card Jackpots
The thing we all dream of: one day winning The Jackpot. With £2 scratch cards you can expect jackpots starting from £50k and going all the way up to £500k. However, with so much variation the odds of actually winning on different £2 scratch cards can vary wildly too.
For example, your odds of getting the jackpot on the £500k Red £2 scratch card is 1 in 5,976,060. To play that many cards you would need to spend nearly £12M before hitting the jackpot.
When you compare that to the odds of getting the £100k Jackpot on the £2 Cash Drop scratch card at only 1 in 1,654,420, it doesn’t seem to unimaginable, right? Though it’s still a once in a lifetime occurrence, it's nearly 4 times as likely.
Best £2 Scratch card Jackpot Chances:
If you’re only in the scratchcard game for the jackpots, not measly payback rates, here’s the £2 national lottery scratch cards with the best chances of winning the jackpot:
Cash Drop (1 in 1,654,420)
Lucky Bonus (1 in 2,210,760)
Christmas Countdown (1 in 3,401,712)
Top £2 Scratch Cards In The UK
Gold Edition Scratch Card £250,000
Odds: 69.5% / 1 in 3.99
One of the most popular £2 scratch cards is the Gold Edition £250k. It has the highest payout rates we’ve seen at this price (69.5%) and offers one of the best chances of getting a winning ticket at 3.99 to 1.
The Gold Edition scratch card has 3 separate games and a bonus game:
In game 1 you win a prize if you reveal a diamond symbol in the game 1 scratch panel. This game on the Gold Edition scratchcard gives you a total of 6 chances to win and prizes range from £2 to £250,000.
Game 2 on the Gold Edition scratch card has just one panel to reveal and is a winner if you find the crossed fingers logo. Prizes in game 2 of this card range from £2 to £100.
Game 3 in the Gold Edition scratch card requires you to match 3 icons with a total of 6 reveals. The game gives you 6 values from £2 to £250,000 and if you match 3 of the same value, you will win that amount.
The bonus game has a single panel and one possible prize of £10. Simply reveal the ‘10’ symbol and get an instant win of £10.
Your chances of making a profit on this game excluding any breakeven cards is 1 in 7.23
Your overall chance of winning £250,000 on this scratch card is 1 in 6,342,696.
Ruby 7s Doubler
Odds: 65.46% / 1 in 4
The Ruby 7s Doubler scratch card has a lower jackpot than a lot of other cards in this price bracket at just £70,000. However, this scratch card is richer in the £10 - £100 prize range. The Ruby 7 Doubler has 2 games: a main and a bonus game, plus a doubler for any prize you win in the main game area.
Main Game: Ruby 7s Doubler is a simple match 3 game, with 8 rows and a double feature. If you match 3 7s on any row you will win the prize shown - and you will get double the prize if all the sevens are red. The jackpot for the Ruby 7s Doubler scratchcard is £70,000.
Bonus Game: The bonus game is a single reveal panel which will win if you find the National Lottery crossed fingers logo.
Your chances of making a profit on this card excluding any break even cards is 1 in 6.31
The odds of you winning the jackpot on this card are 1 in 3,854,800.
£100 Loaded
Odds: 65.98% / 1 in 3.95
£100 Loaded has a £100 max prize but there are thousands of jackpot tickets. It may be a low jackpot but your chances of winning £100 on this card is about 0.045% or around 1 in 2,270.
The chances of making a profit on this game excluding any break even cards are 1 in 6.
The £100 Loaded ticket has 2 games, the main game and a bonus game.
The bonus game has a max prize of £40 if you reveal the National Lottery crossed fingers logo. There is a 1 in 792 chance of getting a ticket worth £40.
For the main game there are 8 rows of 2 symbols. You need to match the symbols on any of the rows to win the prize shown on that row.
Lucky Bonus
Odds: 64.04% / 1 in 4.04
The Lucky Bonus jackpot prize is £80,000, and there’s also plenty of £100 prizes to be won, 3,955 of them to be exact, with an individual chance of 1 in 1,447.
Your chance of getting the £80,000 bonus on the Lucky Bonus scratchcard is 1 in 2,210,760.
The chances of making a profit on this card excluding any break even cards is 1 in 5.
There are 3 games featured on the Lucky Bonus scratchcard: 2 bonus games and a main game.
In the bonus games you need to reveal the National Lottery crossed fingers symbol to win the prize amount shown beneath it, this could be up to £20 and £100 respectively for the two games.
In the main game you need to match 3 symbols corresponding to the Prize Table in the bottom left of the card, it’s a bit like a slot machine. Prizes on the Lucky Bonus scratchcard range from £2 up to £80,000 for this game.
Money Spinner
Odds: 65.46% / 1 in 4.05
The Money Spinner scratchcard has a jackpot prize of £50,000, which is another jackpot which is low for the £2 scratch card level. However, there are plenty of 4 figure prizes to be won on this card.
The chances of achieving the jackpot on the Money Spinner scratchcard are 1 in 3,819,072.
The Money Spinner scratch card offers 34 prizes of £1,000 and £5,000 (5 x £5,000, 29 x £1,000) for which you have a 1 in 561,628 chance of winning.
The chances of making any kind of profit on this card excluding break even cards is 1 in 6.
The Money Spinner scratch card only features 1 game but you get 7 chances to win. Simply match the 3 symbols in any of the 7 game areas to win the prize shown in that area.
Once you have revealed your winning section, you can scratch off the double spot to see if you have won twice that amount with a 2x multiplier.
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