$500 A Week For Life is a $1 ticket from the Florida Lottery. The Florida Lottery stops selling it on October 23, 2026. On ValueScore it earns 11/100 (Poor), good for 8th out of 8 $1 tickets in Florida.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 4.9M at launch, about 1 in 3.7M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $389,400 prizes have been claimed.
- A leaner 21% chance of winning per ticket (1 in 4.83), below most games.
- Prize quality is thin, with the bigger winners mostly gone.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $389,400 ($500 a week for life ($389,400 cash option)) | 1 in 4,850,550 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 692,936 | 28 | 4 | 14% |
| $200 | 1 in 34,159 | 568 | 92 | 16% |
| $100 | 1 in 7,642 | 2,539 | 330 | 13% |
| $40 | 1 in 2,409 | 8,054 | 1,149 | 14% |
| $20 | 1 in 300 | 64,661 | 10,084 | 16% |
| $10 | 1 in 150 | 129,252 | 21,009 | 16% |
| $5 | 1 in 75 | 258,680 | 43,242 | 17% |
| $4 | 1 in 60 | 323,624 | 53,731 | 17% |
| $2 | 1 in 14 | 1,422,841 | 279,963 | 20% |
| $1 | 1 in 11 | 1,810,926 | 357,067 | 20% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $389,400 top prize left on August 8, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Florida's $1 games (0.4% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- Florida
- Game Number
- 1598
- Ticket Price
- $1
- Start Date
- 7/1/2025
- Payout %
- 61.8%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild 9s | 39 | 1 in 4.84 | 62.5% | $9K · 16 | 5.8% |
| LUCKY BUCKS | 35 | 1 in 4.72 | 62.1% | $10K · 15 | 1.4% |
| 10X® THE CASH | 30 | 1 in 4.66 | 62.1% | $10K · 33 | 0.4% |
| $10,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER | 19 | 1 in 4.65 | 62.2% | $10K · 22 | 0.3% |
| Fast $50's | 14 | 1 in 4.84 | 62.7% | $5K · 2 | 0.0% |
| $10,000 HOLIDAY CA$H | 13 | 1 in 4.83 | 62.6% | $10K · 1 | 0.0% |
| $5,000 Holiday Blowout | 13 | 1 in 4.91 | 62.6% | $5K · 3 | 0.0% |
| $500 A Week For Life (this game) | 11 | 1 in 4.83 | 61.8% | $389K · 1 | 0.0% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.