Are the top prizes in Set for Life still available?

5 of 6 top prizes worth $5,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Set for Life ticket pay back?

You get back about 85¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the California Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

California · $20 ticket · #1705

Set for Life

Updated today

5 top prizes are still unclaimed at $5,000,000. A $20 ticket returns about 85¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizesTop prize hasn't hit yet

Pays back per $1 85¢ about 78¢ when the game launched

Top prize $5,000,000 5 of 6 still unclaimed

How far along 56% about 56% of tickets already sold · roughly 7.9 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.32 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$5,000,000	5	6
$2,500	1,982	4,503
$500	31,072	72,202
$250	21,892	50,691
$100	87,674	202,623
$75	129,501	300,398
$50	259,991	600,501
$40	522,557	1,201,226
$30	523,630	1,201,058
Free ticket	792,198	1,801,671

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8530 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7841 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.32
Estimated tickets printed: 18,043,798
Estimated tickets remaining: 7,906,985
Estimated fraction sold: 0.5618
Game number: #1705

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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