Are the top prizes in $1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE still available?

2 of 10 top prizes worth $1,040,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE ticket pay back?

You get back about 78¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Massachusetts Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Massachusetts · $5 ticket · #480

$1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE

Updated today

2 top prizes are still unclaimed at $1,040,000. A $5 ticket returns about 78¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 78¢ about 79¢ when the game launched

Top prize $1,040,000 2 of 10 still unclaimed

How far along 85% about 85% of tickets already sold · roughly 2.2 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.31 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$1,040,000	2	10
$10,000	28	202
$2,000	58	420
$1,000	232	1,680
$500	838	6,720
$100	8,440	69,300
$50	12,414	100,800
$25	12,557	100,800
$20	25,162	201,600
$15	12,876	100,800
$10	190,010	1,411,200
$5	241,346	1,512,000

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7812 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7943 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.31
Estimated tickets printed: 15,108,843
Estimated tickets remaining: 2,229,505
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8524
Game number: #480

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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