Are the top prizes in Loose Change still available?

11 of 140 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Loose Change ticket pay back?

You get back about 55¢ 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 · $1 ticket · #01949

Loose Change

Updated today

11 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 55¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 55¢ about 65¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 11 of 140 still unclaimed

How far along 84% about 84% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.416 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	11	140
$100	184	1,853
$40	1,188	10,816
$20	4,851	43,259
$10	10,416	86,521
$5	28,513	216,286
$2	78,104	519,210
Free ticket	170,824	1,081,286

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5515 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6495 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.416
Estimated tickets printed: 8,652,582
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,345,752
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8445
Game number: #01949

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.