Are the top prizes in CASHWORD still available?

6 of 24 top prizes worth $10,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a CASHWORD ticket pay back?

You get back about 58¢ 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 · $2 ticket · #1649

CASHWORD

Updated today

6 top prizes are still unclaimed at $10,000. A $2 ticket returns about 58¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 58¢ about 64¢ when the game launched

Top prize $10,000 6 of 24 still unclaimed

How far along 69% about 69% of tickets already sold · roughly 12.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 5.02 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$10,000	6	24
$1,000	48	175
$100	1,138	4,455
$50	42,558	163,709
$25	85,907	327,418
$10	350,060	1,309,663
$5	894,955	3,192,327
$2	1,057,975	3,151,394

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5792 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6428 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 5.02
Estimated tickets printed: 40,908,808
Estimated tickets remaining: 12,593,876
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6921
Game number: #1649

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.