$500 InfernoMichigan Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$500 Inferno costs $5 a ticket from the Michigan Lottery. 57% of its winning tickets pay $5 or less, no more than the ticket cost. It pays back about $0.70 per $1 on average, in line with Michigan's other $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Prizes hit less often here, roughly 24% per ticket (1 in 4.10).
- A reasonable chunk of the top and mid-tier prizes are still available, though not the majority.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 | 26,622 | 15,840 | 59% |
| $100 | 5,819 | 3,454 | 59% |
| $50 | 17,429 | 10,385 | 60% |
| $25 | 69,493 | 41,651 | 60% |
| $10 | 782,517 | 471,029 | 60% |
| $5 | 1,217,161 | 737,919 | 61% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, 5,779 $500 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 15,840. The most recent was on November 7.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 | Our records begin | 21,619 |
| July 4 | 4,360 claimed | 17,259 |
| August 3 | 456 claimed | 16,803 |
| September 2 | 369 claimed | 16,434 |
| October 2 | 335 claimed | 16,099 |
| November 1 | 219 claimed | 15,880 |
| November 7 | 40 claimed | 15,840 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Michigan's $5 games (0.5% a week). By tickets sold, it is still the estimated #46 best seller of the 100 Michigan tickets we can rank, at about 14,000 tickets a week: a small share of a big print run is a lot of tickets.
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
- 0697
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 1/6/2026
- Payout %
- 70.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Superstar Bonus | 54 | 1 in 4.02 | 70.1% | $500K · 3 | 0.0% |
| $500,000 Loteria | 54 | 1 in 3.78 | 70.0% | $500K · 3 | 0.0% |
| $500,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier | 52 | 1 in 4.10 | 70.1% | $500K · 2 | 0.1% |
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| $500 Inferno (this game) | 45 | 1 in 4.10 | 70.0% | $500 · 15,840 | 0.2% |
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.