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Average valueActive$500 Cash Craze · $5 · New Jersey Lottery
$500 Cash Craze: Average value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.45 on average.
▼ -2.0 pts vs launch#10 of 20 · $5 NJ games
▼ -2.0 pts vs launch#10 of 20 · $5 NJ games
$500 Cash Craze is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the New Jersey state lottery. Its current expected value is 69.0%, down 2.0 percentage points from the launch value of 71.0%. 1 of the original 4 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 67% of the 5.4M printed tickets have been sold.
69.0%
expected return
1 in 4.55
odds of any win
1 of 4
$200K top prizes left
67%
claimed · 3.7M of 5.4M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 390,989 winning tickets still unclaimed.
12 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
10 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
78 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 612 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.45 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$3.34 · 66.8% of price
Mid prizes $200K
$0.11 · 2.2% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
390,988 winning tickets remain in this range: 97% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
67% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Mar 2026.
5.4M
tickets printed
3.7M
tickets claimed · 67%
1.8M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
25%
Tickets left
33%
25% of top prizes remain with 33% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
New Jersey Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 NJ peers
#10 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from New Jersey Lottery published claim data.
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