Are the top prizes in $500 MAYHEM still available?

155 of 433 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a $500 MAYHEM ticket pay back?

You get back about 70¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Washington, D.C. Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Washington, D.C. · $5 ticket · #1623

$500 MAYHEM

Updated today

155 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $5 ticket returns about 70¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 70¢ about 71¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 155 of 433 still unclaimed

How far along 65% about 65% of tickets already sold · roughly 86,075 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.11 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	155	433
$100	27	77
$50	814	2,471
$20	2,626	7,690
$10	8,461	24,472
$5	8,733	24,472

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7010 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7090 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.11
Estimated tickets printed: 245,018
Estimated tickets remaining: 86,075
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6487
Game number: #1623

Payback trend across our stored snapshots: new game — collecting data

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