Are the top prizes in LOOSE CHANGE still available?

54 of 3205 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a LOOSE CHANGE ticket pay back?

You get back about 41¢ 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 · $1 ticket · #1618

LOOSE CHANGE

Updated today

54 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 41¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 41¢ about 64¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 54 of 3205 still unclaimed

How far along 96% about 96% of tickets already sold · roughly 6.9 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.7 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	54	3,205
$100	714	45,036
$40	3,415	211,653
$25	10,928	617,972
$10	26,440	1,235,944
$5	118,910	4,480,400
$2	304,198	8,188,037
$1	870,219	18,075,350

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.4121 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6426 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.7
Estimated tickets printed: 154,430,706
Estimated tickets remaining: 6,905,661
Estimated fraction sold: 0.9553
Game number: #1618

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.