Are the top prizes in CASHWORD still available?

6 of 24 top prizes worth $10,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a CASHWORD ticket pay back?

You get back about 57¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New York Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New York · $2 ticket · #1649

CASHWORD

Updated today

6 top prizes are still unclaimed at $10,000. A $2 ticket returns about 57¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 57¢ about 64¢ when the game launched

Top prize $10,000 6 of 24 still unclaimed

How far along 71% about 71% of tickets already sold · roughly 12.0 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 5.02 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$10,000	6	24
$1,000	46	175
$100	1,067	4,455
$50	39,850	163,709
$25	80,391	327,418
$10	328,411	1,309,663
$5	842,867	3,192,327
$2	1,010,455	3,151,394

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5746 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6428 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 5.02
Estimated tickets printed: 40,908,808
Estimated tickets remaining: 11,951,533
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7078
Game number: #1649

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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