Are the top prizes in Back To The Future still available?

3 of 3 top prizes worth $500,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Back To The Future ticket pay back?

You get back about 71¢ 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 · #742

Back To The Future

Updated today

3 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500,000. A $5 ticket returns about 71¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 71¢ about 70¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500,000 3 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 26% about 26% of tickets already sold · roughly 6.0 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.02 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500,000	3	3
$2,000	7	10
$500	190	260
$88	3,908	5,397
$50	69,715	95,840
$25	281,722	386,995
$10	605,026	822,341
$5	517,174	693,362

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7080 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7021 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.02
Estimated tickets printed: 8,056,916
Estimated tickets remaining: 5,965,200
Estimated fraction sold: 0.2596
Game number: #742

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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