WIN FOR LIFENew York Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
WIN FOR LIFE costs $2 a ticket from the New York Lottery. With a ValueScore of 73/100 (Good), it is the strongest of New York's 16 $2 tickets. Its expected return of $0.79 per $1 runs $0.16 ahead of the typical $2 ticket in New York. No $2 ticket in New York has better overall odds: 1 in 3.97, against 15 others at that price. Most of its wins only cover the ticket: 67% of winners pay $2 or less.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 4.8M at launch, about 1 in 7.0M now. The $1,000,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- You win something fairly often here, about 25% per ticket (1 in 3.97).
- This game is partway played through, with a fair share of prizes remaining.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 ($1,000 a week for life ($1,000,000 guaranteed minimum)) | 1 in 4,809,700 | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| $2,500 | 1 in 480,970 | 100 | 48 | 48% |
| $200 | 1 in 96,970 | 496 | 193 | 39% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,043 | 46,094 | 17,739 | 38% |
| $40 | 1 in 125 | 192,388 | 74,805 | 39% |
| $20 | 1 in 125 | 384,776 | 148,359 | 39% |
| $15 | 1 in 194 | 247,475 | 95,438 | 39% |
| $10 | 1 in 72 | 664,384 | 261,995 | 39% |
| $5 | 1 in 38 | 1,257,414 | 507,126 | 40% |
| $4 | 1 in 39 | 1,226,464 | 493,564 | 40% |
| $2 | 1 in 10 | 4,691,713 | 1,963,447 | 42% |
| $2 | 1 in 14 | 3,402,894 | 1,755,500 | 52% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since August 8, when our records for it began, 2 $1,000,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 3. The most recent was on October 18.
- October 18, 20261 claimed · 3 left
- October 10, 20261 claimed · 4 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.5% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for New York's $2 games (0.4% 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
- 1624
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 8/30/2024
- Payout %
- 78.8%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $2 ticket in New York
All 16 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIN FOR LIFE (this game) | 73 | 1 in 3.97 | 78.8% | $1M · 3 | 0.5% |
| WIN IT ALL | 38 | 1 in 4.89 | 62.5% | $25K · 6 | 2.9% |
| CASHWORD DOUBLER (Game #1670) | 38 | 1 in 5.09 | 64.2% | $20K · 14 | 0.9% |
| BONUS BLACKJACK | 34 | 1 in 4.89 | 62.5% | $21K · 5 | 1.1% |
| CASHWORD | 28 | 1 in 5.02 | 64.3% | $10K · 6 | 0.8% |
| $100s FOR THE HOLIDAYS | 28 | 1 in 4.45 | 62.5% | $100 · 300 | 0.0% |
| $25,000 EXTRA CA$H | 25 | 1 in 4.80 | 62.5% | $25K · 4 | 0.7% |
| CASH DROP | 21 | 1 in 4.81 | 62.5% | $25K · 1 | 0.0% |
| 20Xtra | 21 | 1 in 4.79 | 62.9% | $25K · 0 | 0.1% |
| DOUBLE DEUCES | 20 | 1 in 4.88 | 62.5% | $25K · 2 | 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.