Are the top prizes in Loose Change still available?

45 of 140 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Loose Change ticket pay back?

You get back about 61¢ 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 · $1 ticket · #01978

Loose Change

Updated today

45 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 61¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 61¢ about 65¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 45 of 140 still unclaimed

How far along 64% about 64% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.1 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.415 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	45	140
$100	571	1,867
$40	3,459	10,740
$20	13,919	43,027
$10	28,464	86,099
$5	72,738	215,000
$2	183,502	516,421
Free ticket	390,884	1,075,706

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6129 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6498 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.415
Estimated tickets printed: 8,604,835
Estimated tickets remaining: 3,104,336
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6392
Game number: #01978

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.