SIZZLING HOT $500,000 is a $25 ticket from the Georgia Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $500,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 482,962, from 1 in 692,526 at launch. It has been on sale since September 2023, and 23% of its prizes are still unclaimed. Only 25% of its winning tickets pay $25 or less; the rest pay more than the ticket cost.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 693K at launch, about 1 in 483K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Each $1 spent here returns about $0.78 on average, comfortably above the typical scratch-off.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 692,526 | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| $50,000 | 1 in 1,038,790 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 1,038,790 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 23,475 | 177 | 44 | 25% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 24,018 | 173 | 45 | 26% |
| $500 | 1 in 753 | 5,519 | 1,214 | 22% |
| $400 | 1 in 705 | 5,896 | 1,339 | 23% |
| $300 | 1 in 324 | 12,818 | 2,827 | 22% |
| $250 | 1 in 480 | 8,662 | 1,979 | 23% |
| $200 | 1 in 478 | 8,693 | 1,970 | 23% |
| $100 | 1 in 68 | 61,155 | 13,808 | 23% |
| $75 | 1 in 54 | 76,522 | 17,551 | 23% |
| $50 | 1 in 12 | 346,784 | 78,434 | 23% |
| $40 | 1 in 12 | 346,562 | 81,835 | 24% |
| $30 | 1 in 12 | 346,694 | 78,653 | 23% |
| $25 Free ticket | 1 in 10 | 416,220 | 100,582 | 24% |
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 0.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for Georgia's $25 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
- 1741
- Ticket Price
- $25
- Start Date
- 9/5/2023
- Payout %
- 78.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $25 ticket in Georgia
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUPER-SIZED BUCKS POWER 25X | 67 | 1 in 2.34 | 80.1% | $500K · 1 of 5 | 0.4% |
| SIZZLING HOT $500,000 (this game) | 66 | 1 in 2.54 | 78.0% | $500K · 2 of 6 | 0.3% |
| LUCKY 7 | 63 | 1 in 2.55 | 78.0% | $778K · 2 of 6 | 0.0% |
| 200X THE MONEY | 51 | 1 in 2.48 | 75.5% | $4M · 0 of 3 | 1.3% |
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.