Are the top prizes in Cash on the Spot still available?

1 of 2 top prizes worth $5,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Cash on the Spot ticket pay back?

You get back about 46¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Mississippi Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Mississippi · $1 ticket · #214

Cash on the Spot

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $5,000. A $1 ticket returns about 46¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 46¢ about 62¢ when the game launched

Top prize $5,000 1 of 2 still unclaimed

How far along 86% about 86% of tickets already sold · roughly 340,211 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.84 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$5,000	1	2
$500	0	60
$100	9	234
$30	113	1,726
$25	126	1,980
$20	952	11,744
$10	2,089	23,585
$5	4,830	54,795
$2	22,423	156,780
$1	34,257	235,170

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.4574 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6198 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.84
Estimated tickets printed: 2,352,608
Estimated tickets remaining: 340,211
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8554
Game number: #214

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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