Are the top prizes in Hit $500 still available?

6271 of 17719 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hit $500 ticket pay back?

You get back about 76¢ 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 · $10 ticket · #1893

Hit $500

Updated Sep 19

6271 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $10 ticket returns about 76¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 76¢ about 77¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 6271 of 17719 still unclaimed

How far along 63% about 63% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.8 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.51 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	6,271	17,719
$200	2,445	6,911
$100	10,624	29,935
$50	12,373	34,863
$30	58,211	163,157
$20	238,898	652,838
$10	182,068	489,639

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7566 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7725 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.51
Estimated tickets printed: 4,896,668
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,804,265
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6315
Game number: #1893

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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