Lucky Numbers costs $5 a ticket from the Florida Lottery. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,146,206 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,398,871. On average it pays back about $0.70 per $1, $0.02 less than the median $5 game in Florida. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 10% of prizes remain. With a ValueScore of 30/100 (Below Avg), it is 21st of the 26 active $5 games in Florida.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.4M at launch, about 1 in 1.1M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Late in this game's life: the remaining prize pool is small.
- Expected value of $0.70 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 1,398,529 | 16 | 2 | 13% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 123,627 | 181 | 20 | 11% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 24,087 | 929 | 78 | 8% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 17,346 | 1,290 | 111 | 9% |
| $500 | 1 in 8,590 | 2,605 | 220 | 8% |
| $100 | 1 in 286 | 78,309 | 6,674 | 9% |
| $50 | 1 in 572 | 39,152 | 3,316 | 8% |
| $40 | 1 in 160 | 139,959 | 12,348 | 9% |
| $25 | 1 in 160 | 139,953 | 12,203 | 9% |
| $20 | 1 in 60 | 372,941 | 33,305 | 9% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 2,237,499 | 210,470 | 9% |
| $5 | 1 in 9 | 2,610,769 | 297,236 | 11% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $500,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Florida's $5 games (0.5% 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
- 1524
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 12/5/2022
- Payout %
- 69.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Florida
All 26 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pearls | 67 | 1 in 3.93 | 73.1% | $1M · 3 | 6.4% |
| GIANT BUCKS | 63 | 1 in 3.75 | 70.3% | $1M · 3 | 1.2% |
| 50X THE CASH | 57 | 1 in 3.81 | 71.1% | $1M · 7 | 0.5% |
| POWER 20X | 56 | 1 in 3.91 | 72.5% | $1M · 2 | 4.2% |
| Jeopardy! | 55 | 1 in 3.86 | 73.6% | $1M · 4 | 0.0% |
| America 250 Florida | 54 | 1 in 4.01 | 72.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.6% |
| The Price is Right™ | 48 | 1 in 4.00 | 72.8% | $1M · 4 | 0.1% |
| Silver & Gold Crossword | 47 | 1 in 3.89 | 70.4% | $500K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $1,000,000 Cash Stacks | 45 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.8% |
| Lucky Numbers (this game) | 30 | 1 in 3.98 | 69.9% | $500K · 2 | 0.1% |
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.