New York · game #1453

Win for Life

Late in its run Most of this print run has sold, so fewer prizes of every size remain.

Prize counts as of August 25, 2026. Prizes can be claimed at any time—confirm with the New York Lottery before buying.

Ticket price $2 1 in 3.75 overall
Top prize For life 1 of 5 remaining
Print run sold 93% estimated from claim rates
Prizes remaining 630,243 of 9,422,304 printed

No return figure for this game. Some prizes are free tickets or lifetime payments with no fixed cash value, so any average would understate what the game actually holds. We would rather show nothing than a number we cannot stand behind.

Full prize table

What is left, tier by tier

Prize Printed Claimed Remaining Claimed %
For life lifetime payment 5 4 1 80%
$2,500 25 24 1 96%
$200 249 242 7 97%
$100 4,750 4,519 231 95%
$40 182,380 173,935 8,445 95%
$20 364,760 350,581 14,179 96%
$15 182,380 175,726 6,654 96%
$12 182,380 175,138 7,242 96%
$10 663,104 631,821 31,283 95%
$7 267,884 255,539 12,345 95%
$5 1,288,835 1,212,829 76,006 94%
$4 1,143,622 1,079,861 63,761 94%
$2 5,141,930 4,731,842 410,088 92%
Every scratch game returns less than it takes in.

These figures describe what is left in a print run. They cannot tell you whether any individual ticket wins, and no game here is a good financial decision.