Are the top prizes in CASH LINES still available?

3 of 3 top prizes worth $300,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a CASH LINES ticket pay back?

You get back about 65¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New York Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New York · $5 ticket · #1728

CASH LINES

Updated today

3 top prizes are still unclaimed at $300,000. A $5 ticket returns about 65¢ on average.

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

Top prize $300,000 3 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 5% about 5% of tickets already sold · roughly 6.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.09 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$300,000	3	3
$5,000	28	28
$2,500	57	58
$500	818	861
$250	961	1,022
$100	11,024	11,592
$50	33,917	35,750
$25	65,694	69,191
$20	344,822	363,201
$10	493,305	518,780
$5	658,646	692,422

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6498 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6488 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.09
Estimated tickets printed: 6,923,994
Estimated tickets remaining: 6,585,278
Estimated fraction sold: 0.0489
Game number: #1728

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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