$5,000,000 BLITZ costs $20 a ticket from the New York Lottery. The $5,000,000 top prize is an annuity: $250,000 a year for 20 years. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 203,487 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 4.5M at launch, about 1 in 3.8M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $5,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- At $0.73 back per $1, the return here is middle-of-the-road for this price point.
- Little of the prize pool has been drained so far.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 ($250,000 a year for 20 years) | 1 in 4,523,550 | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| $20,000 | 1 in 723,768 | 25 | 16 | 64% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 301,570 | 60 | 40 | 67% |
| $4,000 | 1 in 60,114 | 301 | 192 | 64% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 15,956 | 1,134 | 722 | 64% |
| $500 | 1 in 777 | 23,292 | 14,629 | 63% |
| $400 | 1 in 959 | 18,860 | 11,785 | 62% |
| $200 | 1 in 150 | 120,535 | 75,415 | 63% |
| $100 | 1 in 40 | 452,449 | 283,350 | 63% |
| $80 | 1 in 50 | 361,729 | 226,641 | 63% |
| $50 | 1 in 25 | 723,611 | 455,620 | 63% |
| $40 | 1 in 14 | 1,266,718 | 796,055 | 63% |
| $20 | 1 in 10 | 1,809,730 | 1,143,960 | 63% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 3 $5,000,000 top prizes left on March 12, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for New York's $20 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
- New York
- Game Number
- 1671
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 10/7/2025
- Payout %
- 73.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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All 14 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 SPECTACULAR | 91 | 1 in 3.85 | 73.1% | $5M · 4 | - |
| MILLIONAIRE RICHES | 89 | 1 in 3.76 | 73.2% | $5M · 4 | 0.7% |
| $10,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE | 82 | 1 in 3.72 | 74.2% | $10M · 2 | 0.7% |
| $5,000,000 BLITZ (this game) | 80 | 1 in 3.79 | 73.3% | $5M · 3 | 0.3% |
| 200Xtra | 78 | 1 in 3.67 | 73.2% | $5M · 2 | 0.8% |
| $2,000,000 100X CASHWORD | 77 | 1 in 3.82 | 66.8% | $2M · 3 | 0.9% |
| MYSTERY MULTIPLIER | 71 | 1 in 3.67 | 73.3% | $5M · 2 | 0.5% |
| BONUS 100X | 67 | 1 in 3.66 | 74.9% | $5M · 2 | 0.4% |
| $5,000,000 CASH ROYALE | 64 | 1 in 3.90 | 74.7% | $5M · 1 | 0.2% |
| $300,000,000 CASH PAYOUT | 56 | 1 in 3.55 | 72.7% | $5M · 1 | 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.