Are the top prizes in $1,000,000 Payday still available?

9 of 9 top prizes worth $1,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $1,000,000 Payday ticket pay back?

You get back about 77¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New Jersey Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New Jersey · $30 ticket · #02001

$1,000,000 Payday

Updated today

9 top prizes are still unclaimed at $1,000,000. A $30 ticket returns about 77¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 77¢ about 77¢ when the game launched

Top prize $1,000,000 9 of 9 still unclaimed

How far along 3% about 3% of tickets already sold · roughly 9.0 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.639 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$1,000,000	9	9
$50,000	12	12
$10,000	17	18
$5,000	72	73
$2,000	301	310
$500	29,820	30,844
$300	52,532	54,351
$250	93,261	96,478
$200	119,415	123,556
$100	486,554	503,595
$50	1,008,001	1,042,755
Free ticket	672,204	695,106

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7730 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7720 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.639
Estimated tickets printed: 9,268,922
Estimated tickets remaining: 8,961,412
Estimated fraction sold: 0.0332
Game number: #02001

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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