Are the top prizes in $500,000 Gold Payout still available?

1 of 3 top prizes worth $500,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $500,000 Gold Payout ticket pay back?

You get back about 69¢ 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 · $10 ticket · #01843

$500,000 Gold Payout

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $500,000. A $10 ticket returns about 69¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

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

Top prize $500,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 62% about 62% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.973 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500,000	1	3
$10,000	2	6
$2,000	6	14
$500	3,016	8,178
$200	3,492	9,544
$100	42,508	115,449
$50	114,949	311,398
$30	53,601	143,334
$20	213,355	572,988
Free ticket	383,660	1,002,468

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6892 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7037 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.973
Estimated tickets printed: 8,595,117
Estimated tickets remaining: 3,257,097
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6211
Game number: #01843

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.