Are the top prizes in Pocket Change still available?

19 of 142 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Pocket 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 · #01906

Pocket Change

Updated today

19 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 19 of 142 still unclaimed

How far along 85% about 85% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.415 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	19	142
$100	162	1,855
$40	1,056	10,668
$20	4,661	42,711
$10	10,001	85,428
$5	27,540	213,537
$2	75,993	512,569
Free ticket	167,100	1,067,731

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5464 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6500 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.415
Estimated tickets printed: 8,541,440
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,313,905
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8462
Game number: #01906

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.