HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 costs $3 a ticket from the Georgia Lottery. By our estimate the $20,025 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 80,310 per ticket, down from 1 in 205,566. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 9% of prizes remain.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 206K at launch, about 1 in 80K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $20,025 prizes have been claimed.
- At $0.72 back per $1, the return here is middle-of-the-road for this price point.
- Win rate is typical, around 27% per ticket (1 in 3.71).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,025 | 1 in 205,566 | 17 | 4 | 24% |
| $2,025 | 1 in 44,236 | 79 | 5 | 6% |
| $500 | 1 in 30,388 | 115 | 8 | 7% |
| $100 | 1 in 7,031 | 497 | 32 | 6% |
| $50 | 1 in 262 | 13,346 | 784 | 6% |
| $30 | 1 in 167 | 20,923 | 1,358 | 6% |
| $20 | 1 in 51 | 68,412 | 4,411 | 6% |
| $15 | 1 in 50 | 69,895 | 4,824 | 7% |
| $10 | 1 in 100 | 34,995 | 2,611 | 7% |
| $6 | 1 in 33 | 104,734 | 9,025 | 9% |
| $5 | 1 in 33 | 104,746 | 8,451 | 8% |
| $4 | 1 in 20 | 174,670 | 15,721 | 9% |
| $3 Free ticket | 1 in 10 | 349,518 | 39,353 | 11% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $20,025 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% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Georgia's $3 games (0.6% 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
- Georgia
- Game Number
- 1814
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 12/17/2024
- Payout %
- 72.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $3 ticket in Georgia
All 17 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30X BINGO MULTIPLIER | 55 | 1 in 3.78 | 71.7% | $130K · 4 of 4 | 7.0% |
| HIT $300 BINGO | 31 | 1 in 3.75 | 72.0% | $150K · 1 of 4 | 0.0% |
| $100,000 JUMBO CASH CASHWORD | 31 | 1 in 3.94 | 72.8% | $100K · 0 of 4 | 0.0% |
| BULLSEYE BINGO | 30 | 1 in 3.74 | 71.9% | $150K · 1 of 4 | 0.0% |
| JUMBO BUCKS Crossword | 29 | 1 in 4.08 | 73.1% | $100K · 1 of 60 | 0.0% |
| CROSSWORD | 28 | 1 in 3.95 | 71.8% | $130K · 1 of 5 | 1.6% |
| HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 (this game) | 28 | 1 in 3.71 | 72.2% | $20K · 4 of 17 | 0.0% |
| HOT BINGO Multiplier | 28 | 1 in 3.75 | 72.0% | $150K · 2 of 4 | 0.0% |
| JACKPOTS GALORE CROSSWORD | 27 | 1 in 4.08 | 72.2% | $150K · 1 of 4 | 0.2% |
| MYSTERY BINGO Multiplier | 27 | 1 in 3.77 | 72.1% | $170K · 1 of 4 | 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.