Are the top prizes in CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN still available?

16 of 21 top prizes worth $500 are still unclaimed.

What does a CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN ticket pay back?

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

West Virginia · $1 ticket · #1277

CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN

Updated today

16 top prizes are still unclaimed at $500. A $1 ticket returns about 60¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 60¢ about 61¢ when the game launched

Top prize $500 16 of 21 still unclaimed

How far along 21% about 21% of tickets already sold · roughly 1.6 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 5.25 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$500	16	21
$50	268	345
$40	264	341
$20	7,918	10,362
$10	15,993	20,757
$5	44,566	57,221
$4	32,454	41,544
$2	77,113	98,629
$1	131,949	166,113

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6035 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6128 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 5.25
Estimated tickets printed: 2,075,498
Estimated tickets remaining: 1,638,983
Estimated fraction sold: 0.2103
Game number: #1277

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

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