Hello killerwill13,
The Florida Lottery destroys tens of thousands of both full and partial books each year. When a book is activated by the retailer and then returned for any reason such as damages, business no longer wants to sell lottery tickets or is going out of business or has a flood or fire or hurricane damage and they return a single ticket up to a full book of tickets they are all destroyed. Only full books that are not activated and still sealed can be resold once they are returned but all others are destroyed and it took me forever to learn that and verify it. I pressed the lottery on this daily until they got sick of me a couple years ago when 100X ended. That was a very successful $25 game for the florida lottery that completely sold out and left many players really pissed off. I finally got the final numbers on that game after a year of requests via emails and phone calls. For those interested here they are:
Game #1208 100X The Cash $25.00
Total Tickets printed 36,000,000 (900,000 books of 40 tickets per book)
Total Prize Count - 12,844,850 (odds of buying a winning ticket were 1:2.86)
Total Prize Value - $706,498,900
Total Claimed Prizes - 12,661,233 .....There were 183,617 unclaimed prizes!!!
Total Claimed Prize Value - $690,662,624.....There was $15,836,276 in unclaimed prize money!!!
Some of the Top Prizes never claimed were:
1 - $5,000,000.00
6 - $1,000,000.00
2 - $50,000.00
7 - $20,000.00
24 - $5,000.00
522 - $1,000.00
There were 183,617 winning prize tickets that were never claimed and I asked the lottery over and over how this could happen and after a long battle I finally learned about the lottery practice of destroying all returned tickets from over 13,000 retailers without scanning them and updating the remaining prize database shown on the lottery website. There is no way of finding out how exactly many tickets were destroyed by the lottery in that game but since there were 183,617 unclaimed winning tickets with odds of 1:2.86 then over 525,000 total tickets were destroyed or ended up in area 51 :)
You can email opengov and ask for a report called the Instant Liability Summary by Game Report also known as ivalliab_rep. It is a huge file but will show you the end results for every scratch off game sold and the numbers will amaze you. I do not know if they still send it out due to the size and all but that is the report you would want to see the end results for all the scratch off games.