The New York Lottery sells $500,000 BLAST as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 668,783 per ticket, down from 1 in 3,050,564. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 7% of prizes remain. It has been on sale since February 2024.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 3.1M at launch, about 1 in 669K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.66 per $1 spent.
- Winning tickets come up at a 25% clip (1 in 4.02), above the norm.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 3,047,200 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $2,500 | 1 in 761,800 | 12 | 1 | 8% |
| $500 | 1 in 3,160 | 2,893 | 156 | 5% |
| $100 | 1 in 269 | 33,951 | 1,682 | 5% |
| $50 | 1 in 200 | 45,719 | 2,889 | 6% |
| $30 | 1 in 100 | 91,427 | 4,471 | 5% |
| $25 | 1 in 100 | 91,405 | 5,790 | 6% |
| $20 | 1 in 100 | 91,427 | 5,334 | 6% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 1,005,497 | 66,165 | 7% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 914,206 | 79,875 | 9% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $500,000 top prize left on March 6, when our records for it began, is 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 New York's $5 games (0.6% 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
- 1600
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 2/6/2024
- Payout %
- 65.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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All 29 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 73 | 1 in 4.15 | 64.9% | $500K · 3 | - |
| CASH LINES | 72 | 1 in 4.09 | 64.9% | $300K · 3 | 1.5% |
| LUCKY NUMBERS | 69 | 1 in 4.51 | 65.1% | $300K · 4 | - |
| LADY LUCK 25X | 60 | 1 in 4.28 | 65.0% | $500K · 3 | 2.3% |
| DOUBLE TRIPLE CASHWORD | 52 | 1 in 5.14 | 64.2% | $300K · 9 | 0.9% |
| $1,000,000 MUST LOVE DOGS | 52 | 1 in 4.23 | 67.2% | $1M · 1 | 1.0% |
| HOT DOG! | 52 | 1 in 4.45 | 64.9% | $500K · 2 | 1.8% |
| POT OF GOLD | 49 | 1 in 4.35 | 66.2% | $500K · 1 | 1.4% |
| MORE MONEY | 48 | 1 in 4.42 | 67.9% | $1M · 0 | 0.0% |
| $500,000 BLAST (this game) | 40 | 1 in 4.02 | 65.9% | $500K · 1 | 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.