Are the top prizes in Hit $500 still available?

30021 of 70213 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hit $500 ticket pay back?

You get back about 74¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the South Carolina Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

South Carolina · $10 ticket · #1684

Hit $500

Updated today

30021 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $10 ticket returns about 74¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 74¢ about 75¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 30021 of 70213 still unclaimed

How far along 56% about 56% of tickets already sold · roughly 4.5 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.45 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	30,021	70,213
$200	2,908	6,780
$100	16,249	38,004
$50	21,756	50,766
$25	256,322	592,645
$15	334,098	761,835
$10	335,059	761,835

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7416 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7549 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.45
Estimated tickets printed: 10,155,247
Estimated tickets remaining: 4,459,925
Estimated fraction sold: 0.5608
Game number: #1684

Payback trend across our stored snapshots: new game — collecting data

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