The Michigan Lottery sells NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $300,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,230,599 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,846,138. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 474,356 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.8M at launch, about 1 in 1.2M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $300,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.70 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- Roughly half the prize pool has been claimed, with a decent amount still left.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| $2,000 | 10 | 4 | 40% |
| $500 | 194 | 75 | 39% |
| $100 | 2,825 | 1,121 | 40% |
| $50 | 65,431 | 26,522 | 41% |
| $20 | 398,267 | 167,163 | 42% |
| $10 | 489,478 | 210,417 | 43% |
| $5 | 557,696 | 249,270 | 45% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $300,000 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
- 0729
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 10/28/2025
- 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% |
| NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION (this game) | 47 | 1 in 3.76 | 70.0% | $300K · 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.