Are the top prizes in Loose Change still available?

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

What does a Loose Change ticket pay back?

You get back about 62¢ 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 · #01978

Loose Change

Updated today

53 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 62¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 62¢ about 65¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 53 of 140 still unclaimed

How far along 58% about 58% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.7 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.415 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	53	140
$100	710	1,867
$40	4,188	10,740
$20	16,805	43,027
$10	34,214	86,099
$5	86,773	215,000
$2	216,862	516,421
Free ticket	459,374	1,075,706

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6212 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6498 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.415
Estimated tickets printed: 8,604,835
Estimated tickets remaining: 3,654,796
Estimated fraction sold: 0.5753
Game number: #01978

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.