Are the top prizes in $250,000 WINTER WINNINGS still available?

14 of 39 top prizes worth $250,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $250,000 WINTER WINNINGS ticket pay back?

You get back about 81¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Massachusetts Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Massachusetts · $20 ticket · #519

$250,000 WINTER WINNINGS

Updated today

14 top prizes are still unclaimed at $250,000. A $20 ticket returns about 81¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 81¢ about 80¢ when the game launched

Top prize $250,000 14 of 39 still unclaimed

How far along 68% about 68% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 2.94 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$250,000	14	39
$5,000	248	770
$2,000	220	665
$1,000	1,175	3,675
$500	1,975	6,405
$200	3,157	10,080
$100	56,146	179,060
$50	31,697	100,800
$40	31,771	100,800
$30	64,353	201,600
$25	129,021	403,200
$20	224,859	705,600

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8120 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.8047 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 2.94
Estimated tickets printed: 5,035,320
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,607,052
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6808
Game number: #519

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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