Jefferson costs $2 a ticket from the Michigan Lottery. By our estimate the $50,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,913,999 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,416,574. It has been on sale since May 2024, and 63% of its prizes are still unclaimed.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.4M at launch, about 1 in 1.9M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $50,000 prizes have been claimed.
- At 1 in 4.65, winning tickets turn up less often than usual.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| $500 | 121 | 77 | 64% |
| $100 | 2,391 | 1,481 | 62% |
| $50 | 12,176 | 7,562 | 62% |
| $20 | 196,366 | 122,808 | 63% |
| $10 | 423,031 | 263,874 | 62% |
| $5 | 362,619 | 229,312 | 63% |
| $4 | 453,324 | 285,875 | 63% |
| $2 | 1,148,434 | 735,458 | 64% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 4 $50,000 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% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Michigan's $2 games (0.4% 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
- 0639
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 5/7/2024
- Payout %
- 63.1%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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All 15 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Time Series | 42 | 1 in 4.74 | 63.1% | $50K · 5 | 2.0% |
| Corner Cashword | 41 | 1 in 4.50 | 63.2% | $30K · 8 | 0.7% |
| Season's Greetings | 39 | 1 in 4.46 | 63.7% | $10K · 3 | 0.0% |
| Topaz 7s | 35 | 1 in 4.67 | 63.0% | $50K · 3 | 1.8% |
| 10X | 35 | 1 in 4.61 | 63.0% | $50K · 3 | 0.0% |
| $50,000 Cash Multiplier | 33 | 1 in 4.69 | 63.4% | $50K · 2 | 0.0% |
| 10X Wild Time | 33 | 1 in 4.70 | 63.0% | $30K · 3 | 0.1% |
| Jefferson (this game) | 33 | 1 in 4.65 | 63.1% | $50K · 4 | 0.0% |
| BLACKJACK | 30 | 1 in 4.55 | 63.9% | $50K · 2 | 0.9% |
| $50,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier | 30 | 1 in 4.66 | 63.2% | $50K · 2 | 0.4% |
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.