Are the top prizes in Spicy Hot Cash! still available?

2 of 2 top prizes worth $20,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Spicy Hot Cash! ticket pay back?

You get back about 64¢ 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 · $2 ticket · #254

Spicy Hot Cash!

Updated today

2 top prizes are still unclaimed at $20,000. A $2 ticket returns about 64¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 64¢ about 63¢ when the game launched

Top prize $20,000 2 of 2 still unclaimed

How far along 45% about 45% of tickets already sold · roughly 547,327 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.64 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$20,000	2	2
$2,000	2	3
$500	38	75
$200	340	614
$100	247	465
$50	510	960
$20	3,580	6,712
$10	10,487	19,988
$5	46,669	86,839
$2	55,542	100,215

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6414 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6337 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.64
Estimated tickets printed: 1,001,651
Estimated tickets remaining: 547,327
Estimated fraction sold: 0.4536
Game number: #254

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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