$500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSENew York Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSE costs $5 a ticket from the New York Lottery. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 183,037 tickets. It pays back about $0.65 per $1 on average, in line with New York's other $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- The prize pool is running thin, with most prizes already won.
- At $0.65 back per $1, the return here is middle-of-the-road for this price point.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 2,015,367 | 3 | 0 | Claimed |
| $3,000 | 1 in 201,537 | 30 | 6 | 20% |
| $300 | 1 in 3,216 | 1,880 | 404 | 21% |
| $100 | 1 in 316 | 19,132 | 4,216 | 22% |
| $50 | 1 in 181 | 33,332 | 7,637 | 23% |
| $30 | 1 in 83 | 72,487 | 16,475 | 23% |
| $20 | 1 in 62 | 96,773 | 22,823 | 24% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 665,182 | 158,584 | 24% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 628,828 | 161,518 | 26% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The last $500,000 top prize was reported claimed on May 3. 1 was left on March 6, when our records for it began.
- May 3, 20261 claimed · 0 left
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
- 1682
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 1/6/2026
- Payout %
- 65.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 29 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASH LINES | 73 | 1 in 4.09 | 64.9% | $300K · 3 | 1.6% |
| 13 | 72 | 1 in 4.15 | 64.9% | $500K · 3 | - |
| LUCKY NUMBERS | 66 | 1 in 4.51 | 65.1% | $300K · 4 | - |
| LADY LUCK 25X | 57 | 1 in 4.28 | 65.0% | $500K · 3 | 2.1% |
| DOUBLE TRIPLE CASHWORD | 53 | 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 | 0.9% |
| HOT DOG! | 52 | 1 in 4.45 | 64.9% | $500K · 2 | 1.6% |
| POT OF GOLD | 49 | 1 in 4.35 | 66.2% | $500K · 1 | 1.3% |
| MONEY VAULT MULTIPLIER | 48 | 1 in 4.28 | 53.8% | $1M · 4 | 2.8% |
| $500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSE (this game) | 45 | 1 in 3.98 | 65.0% | $500K · 0 | 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.