New York · game #1650

ULTIMATE CASH (50 Tix)

Part way through Some prizes claimed, top prizes still available.

Prize counts as of October 21, 2026. Prizes can be claimed at any time—confirm with the New York Lottery before buying.

Ticket price $30 1 in 3.64 overall
Top prize $10,000,000 ($500,000/yr for 20 years) 1 of 3 remaining
Print run sold 57% estimated from claim rates
Prizes remaining 2,172,621 of 5,094,645 printed

Expected return

Counting only prizes you have a realistic chance of hitting, this game returns about $21.08 per $30 ticket — 70% of what you pay. Like every scratch game, that is a loss on average.

A further $10,336,000 sits in 28 remaining prizes so rare that your chance of reaching one is about 1 in 282,473 per ticket — 6% of everything left in this game.

Based on roughly 7,909,233 tickets estimated to remain unsold. Scratch outcomes are fixed at printing; nothing here predicts an individual ticket.

Full prize table

What is left, tier by tier

Prize Printed Claimed Remaining Claimed %
$10,000,000 ($500,000/yr for 20 years) 3 2 1 67%
$20,000 25 15 10 60%
$8,000 40 23 17 58%
$4,000 1,875 1,075 800 57%
$2,000 3,093 1,728 1,365 56%
$400 86,365 49,730 36,635 58%
$200 185,428 106,683 78,745 58%
$100 741,198 426,182 315,016 57%
$75 1,111,858 637,598 474,260 57%
$50 2,964,760 1,698,988 1,265,772 57%
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.