Are the top prizes in $500,000 Winter Ice still available?

1 of 2 top prizes worth $500,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $500,000 Winter Ice ticket pay back?

You get back about 69¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Michigan Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Michigan · $5 ticket · #615

$500,000 Winter Ice

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $500,000. A $5 ticket returns about 69¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 69¢ about 70¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500,000 1 of 2 still unclaimed

How far along 65% about 65% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.5 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.05 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500,000	1	2
$500	7	15
$100	810	2,738
$50	24,941	79,494
$20	46,406	141,066
$15	49,533	149,900
$10	100,193	299,903
$5	147,496	414,370

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6865 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6992 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.05
Estimated tickets printed: 4,404,326
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,527,292
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6532
Game number: #615

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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