Are the top prizes in Hit $50 still available?

12 of 32 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hit $50 ticket pay back?

You get back about 56¢ 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 · #250

Hit $50

Updated today

12 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 56¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 56¢ about 61¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 12 of 32 still unclaimed

How far along 61% about 61% of tickets already sold · roughly 958,431 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.73 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	12	32
$100	156	466
$50	2,301	6,867
$15	1,395	4,151
$10	5,615	16,592
$5	14,440	41,506
$2	77,597	207,500
$1	98,220	249,000

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5627 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6050 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.73
Estimated tickets printed: 2,488,519
Estimated tickets remaining: 958,431
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6149
Game number: #250

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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