Are the top prizes in Winter Cash still available?

4175 of 4213 top prizes worth $25 are still unclaimed.

What does a Winter Cash ticket pay back?

You get back about 60¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New Mexico Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New Mexico · $1 ticket · #693

Winter Cash

Updated today

4175 top prizes are still unclaimed at $25. A $1 ticket returns about 60¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 60¢ about 60¢ when the game launched

Top prize $25 4175 of 4213 still unclaimed

How far along 1% about 1% of tickets already sold · roughly 624,979 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.76 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$25	4,175	4,213
$10	6,223	6,287
$5	14,526	14,661
$2	31,224	31,470
Free ticket	75,102	75,660

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6029 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6036 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.76
Estimated tickets printed: 629,705
Estimated tickets remaining: 624,979
Estimated fraction sold: 0.0075
Game number: #693

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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