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

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

What does a $500,000 BLAST ticket pay back?

You get back about 67¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New York Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New York · $5 ticket · #1600

$500,000 BLAST

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $500,000. A $5 ticket returns about 67¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 67¢ about 66¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500,000 1 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 92% about 92% of tickets already sold · roughly 697,862 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.02 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500,000	1	3
$2,500	1	12
$500	157	2,893
$100	1,689	33,951
$50	2,893	45,719
$30	4,482	91,427
$25	5,801	91,405
$20	5,348	91,427
$10	66,341	1,005,497
$5	80,046	914,206

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6719 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6587 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.02
Estimated tickets printed: 9,151,691
Estimated tickets remaining: 697,862
Estimated fraction sold: 0.9237
Game number: #1600

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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