The Michigan Lottery sells Lincoln as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 2,352,715 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,904,923. At a ValueScore of 39/100 (Below Avg), it is 26th of the 31 active $5 games in Michigan. It has been on sale since May 2024, and 54% of its prizes are still unclaimed.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.9M at launch, about 1 in 2.4M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Prizes hit less often here, roughly 24% per ticket (1 in 4.14).
- 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 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $5,000 | 29 | 18 | 62% |
| $2,000 | 58 | 34 | 59% |
| $500 | 291 | 157 | 54% |
| $200 | 1,454 | 774 | 53% |
| $100 | 10,190 | 5,401 | 53% |
| $50 | 153,919 | 81,665 | 53% |
| $25 | 305,008 | 161,949 | 53% |
| $10 | 762,510 | 411,208 | 54% |
| $5 | 871,555 | 475,369 | 55% |
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% 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
- 0640
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 5/7/2024
- Payout %
- 70.0%
- 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% |
| Lincoln (this game) | 39 | 1 in 4.14 | 70.0% | $500K · 2 | 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.