Are the top prizes in Hit $500 still available?

5432 of 17719 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hit $500 ticket pay back?

You get back about 75¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the Georgia Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

Georgia · $10 ticket · #1893

Hit $500

Updated today

5432 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $10 ticket returns about 75¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 75¢ about 77¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 5432 of 17719 still unclaimed

How far along 68% about 68% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.51 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	5,432	17,719
$200	2,127	6,911
$100	9,246	29,935
$50	10,767	34,863
$30	50,764	163,157
$20	209,093	652,838
$10	159,884	489,639

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7530 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7725 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.51
Estimated tickets printed: 4,896,668
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,581,439
Estimated fraction sold: 0.6770
Game number: #1893

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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