HOT DOG! costs $5 a ticket from the New York Lottery. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 161,018 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?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.3M at launch, about 1 in 2.0M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.65 per $1 spent.
- The bigger prize tiers here have plenty left to win.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 in 2,305,500 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 172,913 | 40 | 26 | 65% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,918 | 3,606 | 2,009 | 56% |
| $150 | 1 in 960 | 7,206 | 4,035 | 56% |
| $100 | 1 in 300 | 23,088 | 12,937 | 56% |
| $50 | 1 in 198 | 34,908 | 19,471 | 56% |
| $25 | 1 in 80 | 86,400 | 48,732 | 56% |
| $20 | 1 in 80 | 86,505 | 48,852 | 56% |
| $15 | 1 in 100 | 69,234 | 39,271 | 57% |
| $10 | 1 in 13 | 553,299 | 316,909 | 57% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 691,617 | 403,543 | 58% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on July 9, one $500,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on July 30.
- July 30, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.7% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for New York'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
- New York
- Game Number
- 1701
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 7/7/2026
- Payout %
- 64.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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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 | 1.6% |
| LUCKY NUMBERS | 69 | 1 in 4.51 | 65.1% | $300K · 4 | - |
| LADY LUCK 25X | 60 | 1 in 4.28 | 65.0% | $500K · 3 | 2.2% |
| 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! (this game) | 52 | 1 in 4.45 | 64.9% | $500K · 2 | 1.7% |
| POT OF GOLD | 49 | 1 in 4.35 | 66.2% | $500K · 1 | 1.3% |
| MORE MONEY | 48 | 1 in 4.42 | 67.9% | $1M · 0 | 0.0% |
| MONEY VAULT MULTIPLIER | 48 | 1 in 4.28 | 53.8% | $1M · 4 | 3.1% |
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.