Are the top prizes in FESTIVE $500s still available?

198 of 11633 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a FESTIVE $500s ticket pay back?

You get back about 39¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Georgia Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Georgia · $5 ticket · #1614

FESTIVE $500s

Updated Sep 19

198 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $5 ticket returns about 39¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 39¢ about 72¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 198 of 11633 still unclaimed

How far along 94% about 94% of tickets already sold · roughly 355,426 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.79 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	198	11,633
$100	98	4,922
$50	129	6,871
$30	204	10,289
$25	1,129	48,923
$20	3,676	146,886
$15	2,955	97,932
$10	10,753	342,709
$8	17,417	293,757
$5	35,852	587,460

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.3903 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7247 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.79
Estimated tickets printed: 5,879,738
Estimated tickets remaining: 355,426
Estimated fraction sold: 0.9396
Game number: #1614

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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