Are the top prizes in 40 Years of Play! still available?

1 of 7 top prizes worth $15,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a 40 Years of Play! ticket pay back?

You get back about 85¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the California Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

California · $40 ticket · #1660

40 Years of Play!

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $15,000,000. A $40 ticket returns about 85¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 85¢ about 80¢ when the game launched

Top prize $15,000,000 1 of 7 still unclaimed

How far along 90% about 90% of tickets already sold · roughly 2.0 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 2.85 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$15,000,000	1	7
$100,000	0	14
$40,000	22	182
$10,000	23	182
$4,000	348	3,568
$1,000	274	2,673
$400	24,076	266,797
$200	21,472	235,977
$100	51,789	568,406
$80	196,981	2,132,781
$40	410,862	4,264,665

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8531 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.8031 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 2.85
Estimated tickets printed: 21,304,468
Estimated tickets remaining: 2,024,210
Estimated fraction sold: 0.9050
Game number: #1660

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

Source: the California Lottery's own game page. Every figure here is an estimate — how we figure them.