Are the top prizes in $500 Inferno still available?

15980 of 26622 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a $500 Inferno ticket pay back?

You get back about 69¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Michigan Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Michigan · $5 ticket · #697

$500 Inferno

Updated today

15980 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $5 ticket returns about 69¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 69¢ about 70¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 15980 of 26622 still unclaimed

How far along 39% about 39% of tickets already sold · roughly 5.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.1 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	15,980	26,622
$100	3,489	5,819
$50	10,467	17,429
$25	42,028	69,493
$10	475,036	782,517
$5	744,170	1,217,161

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6941 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7001 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.1
Estimated tickets printed: 8,688,068
Estimated tickets remaining: 5,297,125
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3903
Game number: #697

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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