Are the top prizes in Pocket Change still available?

16 of 143 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Pocket Change ticket pay back?

You get back about 56¢ 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 · #01937

Pocket Change

Updated today

16 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 56¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 56¢ about 65¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 16 of 143 still unclaimed

How far along 85% about 85% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.415 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	16	143
$100	197	1,843
$40	1,127	10,743
$20	4,860	42,914
$10	10,205	85,826
$5	27,733	214,576
$2	74,757	514,927
Free ticket	164,597	1,072,922

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5603 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6499 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.415
Estimated tickets printed: 8,582,292
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,293,704
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8493
Game number: #01937

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.