SET FOR LIFE costs $10 a ticket from the New York Lottery. Its expected return of $0.74 per $1 runs $0.05 ahead of the typical $10 ticket in New York. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 7% of prizes remain.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 8.0M at launch, about 1 in 1.7M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $5,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Wins hit often: about a 25% chance to win something per ticket (1 in 3.95), better than most games.
- You get back about $0.74 per $1 on average, which is normal for this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000,000 ($5,000 a week for life ($5,000,000 guaranteed minimum)) | 1 in 8,018,625 | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| $50,000 | 1 in 2,405,588 | 20 | 2 | 10% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 103,466 | 465 | 38 | 8% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 80,053 | 601 | 54 | 9% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,144 | 42,063 | 2,636 | 6% |
| $100 | 1 in 93 | 514,947 | 32,201 | 6% |
| $50 | 1 in 24 | 2,004,718 | 126,568 | 6% |
| $25 | 1 in 50 | 962,235 | 62,916 | 7% |
| $20 | 1 in 15 | 3,271,843 | 223,495 | 7% |
| $15 | 1 in 50 | 962,172 | 64,501 | 7% |
| $10 | 1 in 11 | 4,425,857 | 363,345 | 8% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $5,000,000 top prizes left on August 8, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about twice the average for New York's $10 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
- 1639
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 1/9/2025
- Payout %
- 73.8%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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All 16 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BONUS BUCKS | 75 | 1 in 3.86 | 69.4% | $3M · 2 | 0.2% |
| $3,000,000 MAX MULTIPLIER | 74 | 1 in 4.27 | 69.3% | $3M · 2 | 0.8% |
| $3,000,000 BONUS STARS | 68 | 1 in 3.99 | 69.4% | $3M · 1 | 1.1% |
| 100Xtra | 65 | 1 in 3.91 | 69.5% | $3M · 3 | 1.1% |
| $1,000,000 50X CASHWORD | 63 | 1 in 4.32 | 65.0% | $1M · 3 | 1.8% |
| BONUS 50X | 57 | 1 in 3.92 | 71.4% | $3M · 1 | 0.5% |
| MONEY MATCH | 55 | 1 in 4.01 | 69.5% | $3M · 1 | 0.5% |
| SET FOR LIFE (this game) | 53 | 1 in 3.95 | 73.8% | $5M · 2 | 1.1% |
| $3,000,000 CA$H | 52 | 1 in 4.02 | 70.5% | $3M · 0 | 0.0% |
| $5,000 HOLIDAY FRENZY/$5,000 GOLD | 50 | 1 in 3.85 | 70.5% | $5K · 35 | 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.