New York · game #1655
$1,000,000 GOLD
Late in its run
Most of this print run has sold, so fewer prizes of every size remain.
Prize counts as of October 21, 2026. Prizes can be claimed at any time—confirm with the New York Lottery before buying.
Expected return
Counting only prizes you have a realistic chance of hitting, this game returns about $2.42 per $5 ticket — 48% of what you pay. Like every scratch game, that is a loss on average.
Top-heavy game. A further $2,002,000 sits in 3 remaining prizes so rare that your chance of reaching one is about 1 in 132,690 per ticket — 68% of everything left in this game. Averaging that money across every ticket would make this look like a far better buy than it is, so we keep it separate.
Based on roughly 398,069 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 ($50,000/yr for 20 years) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| $2,000 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% |
| $500 | 382 | 362 | 20 | 95% |
| $200 | 592 | 568 | 24 | 96% |
| $100 | 30,204 | 28,771 | 1,433 | 95% |
| $40 | 60,327 | 57,707 | 2,620 | 96% |
| $20 | 60,327 | 57,225 | 3,102 | 95% |
| $15 | 120,626 | 114,743 | 5,883 | 95% |
| $10 | 542,971 | 509,829 | 33,142 | 94% |
| $5 | 542,971 | 499,499 | 43,472 | 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.