Are the top prizes in $1 Million California Cash still available?

37 of 40 top prizes worth $1,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $1 Million California Cash ticket pay back?

You get back about 82¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the California Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

California · $40 ticket · #1749

$1 Million California Cash

Updated today

37 top prizes are still unclaimed at $1,000,000. A $40 ticket returns about 82¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 82¢ about 82¢ when the game launched

Top prize $1,000,000 37 of 40 still unclaimed

How far along 7% about 7% of tickets already sold · roughly 13.9 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 2.32 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$1,000,000	37	40
$50,000	19	20
$10,000	491	508
$2,000	2,387	2,489
$1,000	14,422	15,222
$500	28,969	31,218
$400	231,268	249,813
$200	119,797	129,438
$100	486,008	525,141
$50	926,205	1,000,000
Free ticket	2,316,031	2,500,000
$40	1,852,406	2,000,000

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8195 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.8185 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 2.32
Estimated tickets printed: 14,973,022
Estimated tickets remaining: 13,869,800
Estimated fraction sold: 0.0737
Game number: #1749

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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