The Michigan Lottery sells $500,000 Winter Ice as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,495,965 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,202,163. At a ValueScore of 40/100 (Fair), it is 25th of the 31 active $5 games in Michigan. It has been on sale since December 2023, and 34% of its prizes are still unclaimed.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.2M at launch, about 1 in 1.5M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- At $0.70 back per $1, the return here is middle-of-the-road for this price point.
- A reasonable chunk of the top and mid-tier prizes are still available, though not the majority.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| $500 | 15 | 7 | 47% |
| $100 | 2,738 | 810 | 30% |
| $50 | 79,494 | 24,941 | 31% |
| $20 | 141,066 | 46,405 | 33% |
| $15 | 149,900 | 49,532 | 33% |
| $10 | 299,903 | 100,191 | 33% |
| $5 | 414,370 | 147,487 | 36% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $500,000 top prize left on March 6, 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 Michigan'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
- Michigan
- Game Number
- 0615
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 12/5/2023
- Payout %
- 69.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Michigan
All 31 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Box Multiplier Cashword | 72 | 1 in 3.67 | 70.1% | $300K · 3 | - |
| Gold Rush Tripler | 60 | 1 in 4.18 | 70.3% | $500K · 3 | - |
| In The Money | 60 | 1 in 4.13 | 70.1% | $500K · 3 | 1.5% |
| $500,000 Loteria | 60 | 1 in 3.78 | 70.0% | $500K · 3 | 0.0% |
| Spectacular Wild Time | 55 | 1 in 3.63 | 70.2% | $500K · 2 | 0.5% |
| Lucky Stars | 54 | 1 in 3.99 | 73.1% | $1M · 2 | 1.2% |
| Fireball Bingo | 54 | 1 in 3.93 | 70.4% | $300K · 3 | 1.5% |
| $500,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier | 52 | 1 in 4.10 | 70.1% | $500K · 2 | 0.2% |
| Cash Vault | 51 | 1 in 4.13 | 70.4% | $500K · 3 | 2.8% |
| $500,000 Winter Ice (this game) | 40 | 1 in 4.05 | 69.9% | $500K · 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.