Are the top prizes in HIT $500! still available?

1123 of 127997 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a HIT $500! ticket pay back?

You get back about 48¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Georgia Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Georgia · $5 ticket · #1426

HIT $500!

Updated today

1123 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $5 ticket returns about 48¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 48¢ about 72¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 1123 of 127997 still unclaimed

How far along 97% about 97% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.9 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.4 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	1,123	127,997
$100	838	96,494
$50	5,260	386,930
$25	37,477	964,807
$15	39,961	965,089
$10	85,040	4,824,817
$5	269,811	5,789,816

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.4800 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7214 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.4
Estimated tickets printed: 57,886,180
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,935,156
Estimated fraction sold: 0.9666
Game number: #1426

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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