New York · game #1628

INSTANT TAKE 5

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

Prize counts as of August 27, 2026. Prizes can be claimed at any time—confirm with the New York Lottery before buying.

Ticket price $1 1 in 4.69 overall

Top prize $5,555 19 of 95 remaining

Print run sold 95% estimated from claim rates

Prizes remaining 1,281,225 of 28,384,785 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 %
$5,555	95	76	19	80%
$500	837	753	84	90%
$100	4,179	3,827	352	92%
$40	16,075	15,249	826	95%
$20	200,804	194,247	6,557	97%
$10	451,791	437,275	14,516	97%
$5	2,108,478	2,049,902	58,576	97%
$2	2,108,426	2,033,639	74,787	96%
$1	5,823,348	5,583,616	239,732	96%
Free ticket free ticket	17,670,752	16,784,976	885,776	95%

Official game rules and prize structure (PDF) →

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.