Are the top prizes in $1,000,000 Payday still available?

9 of 9 top prizes worth $1,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $1,000,000 Payday ticket pay back?

You get back about 77¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New Jersey Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New Jersey · $30 ticket · #02001

$1,000,000 Payday

Updated today

9 top prizes are still unclaimed at $1,000,000. A $30 ticket returns about 77¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 77¢ about 77¢ when the game launched

Top prize $1,000,000 9 of 9 still unclaimed

How far along 0% about 0% of tickets already sold · roughly 9.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.639 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$1,000,000	9	9
$50,000	12	12
$10,000	18	18
$5,000	73	73
$2,000	310	310
$500	30,801	30,844
$300	54,299	54,351
$250	96,368	96,478
$200	123,397	123,556
$100	502,983	503,595
$50	1,041,553	1,042,755
Free ticket	694,408	695,106

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7720 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7720 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.639
Estimated tickets printed: 9,268,922
Estimated tickets remaining: 9,258,788
Estimated fraction sold: 0.0011
Game number: #02001

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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