Are the top prizes in Hit $50 still available?

1161 of 18851 top prizes worth $50 are still unclaimed.

What does a Hit $50 ticket pay back?

You get back about 43¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the South Carolina Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

South Carolina · $1 ticket · #1685

Hit $50

Updated today

1161 top prizes are still unclaimed at $50. A $1 ticket returns about 43¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 43¢ about 62¢ when the game launched

Top prize $50 1161 of 18851 still unclaimed

How far along 88% about 88% of tickets already sold · roughly 441,956 tickets left (estimated) 1 in 5.62 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$50	1,161	18,851
$20	253	4,021
$10	1,274	17,982
$5	2,932	35,835
$4	3,180	35,882
$2	20,478	191,499
$1	44,311	335,062

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.4265 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6246 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 5.62
Estimated tickets printed: 3,591,922
Estimated tickets remaining: 441,956
Estimated fraction sold: 0.8770
Game number: #1685

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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