Are the top prizes in $250,000 WINTER WINNINGS still available?

13 of 39 top prizes worth $250,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $250,000 WINTER WINNINGS ticket pay back?

You get back about 81¢ 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 · $20 ticket · #519

$250,000 WINTER WINNINGS

Updated today

13 top prizes are still unclaimed at $250,000. A $20 ticket returns about 81¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 81¢ about 80¢ when the game launched

Top prize $250,000 13 of 39 still unclaimed

How far along 69% about 69% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 2.94 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$250,000	13	39
$5,000	242	770
$2,000	213	665
$1,000	1,157	3,675
$500	1,928	6,405
$200	3,095	10,080
$100	55,051	179,060
$50	31,115	100,800
$40	31,186	100,800
$30	63,110	201,600
$25	126,689	403,200
$20	220,687	705,600

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8053 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.8047 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 2.94
Estimated tickets printed: 5,035,320
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,577,516
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6867
Game number: #519

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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