$500,000 Lion's ShareNew Jersey Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$500,000 Lion's Share is one of the New Jersey Lottery's $10 games. Its expected return of $0.66 per $1 sits $0.05 below the typical $10 ticket in New Jersey. Its ValueScore of 16/100 (Poor) makes it 12th out of 13 $10 tickets in New Jersey. Its overall odds of 1 in 6.93 trail the 1 in 3.95 typical of New Jersey's $10 games. None of its winning tickets pays $10 or less: every prize is worth more than the ticket.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.2M at launch, about 1 in 1.1M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.66 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- Most of the larger top and mid-tier prizes have already been won.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 1,235,370 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 411,790 | 9 | 2 | 22% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 123,537 | 30 | 8 | 27% |
| $500 | 1 in 2,172 | 1,706 | 510 | 30% |
| $200 | 1 in 772 | 4,801 | 1,386 | 29% |
| $100 | 1 in 57 | 64,863 | 18,800 | 29% |
| $50 | 1 in 40 | 92,659 | 27,515 | 30% |
| $40 | 1 in 30 | 123,519 | 35,763 | 29% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 247,110 | 73,553 | 30% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since April 6, when our records for it began, 2 $500,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was between April 12 and August 30.
- April 12 to August 30, 20262 claimed · 1 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for New Jersey's $10 games (1.1% 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 Jersey
- Game Number
- 1929
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 8/28/2025
- Payout %
- 66.0%
- Data Source
- State lottery
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $10 ticket in New Jersey
All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 Crossword | 68 | 1 in 3.94 | 72.0% | $250K · 5 | 3.9% |
| Cash Fever | 66 | 1 in 3.72 | 73.4% | $500K · 2 | 0.7% |
| Disco Dollarfest | 65 | 1 in 3.72 | 72.9% | $500K · 1 | 0.3% |
| Ruby 7's | 61 | 1 in 4.04 | 72.7% | $500K · 1 | 4.0% |
| 50X Cash Blitz | 59 | 1 in 3.75 | 71.0% | $500K · 1 | 0.2% |
| $1,000,000 Spectacular | 57 | 1 in 3.89 | 72.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.3% |
| The Shore Thing | 53 | 1 in 3.96 | 70.5% | $500K · 1 | 0.2% |
| Super Hot 7's | 49 | 1 in 4.01 | 69.9% | $500K · 1 | 0.2% |
| $250,000 Crossword (Game #1965) | 45 | 1 in 3.94 | 71.9% | $250K · 1 | 0.2% |
| $500,000 Lion's Share (this game) | 16 | 1 in 6.93 | 66.0% | $500K · 1 | 0.3% |
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.