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Average valueActiveWin For Life! · $5 · New Jersey Lottery
Win For Life!: Average value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.54 on average.
▲ +2.2 pts vs launch#4 of 15 · $5 NJ gamesUpdated Jun 24, 2026, 12:26 PM
▲ +2.2 pts vs launch#4 of 15 · $5 NJ gamesUpdated Jun 24, 2026, 12:26 PM
Win For Life! is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the New Jersey state lottery. Its current expected value is 70.8%, up 2.2 percentage points from the launch value of 68.6%. 2 of the original 3 $10,000 A MONTH/LIF top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 50% of the 13.0M printed tickets have been sold.
70.8%
expected return
1 in 4.35
odds of any win
2 of 3
$1.8M jackpots left
50%
claimed · 6.5M of 13M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,485,192 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $5
$10 – $100, an actual profit
8 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 3,443 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.54 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$2.94 · 58.9% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $10K
$0.05 · 1.0% of price
Jackpots $1.8M+
$0.55 · 11.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
59.8%
Just 2 tickets out of 6.5M carry the $1.8M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
1,485,107 winning tickets remain in this range: 83% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
50% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Nov 2025.
13M
tickets printed
6.5M
tickets claimed · 50%
6.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
67%
Tickets left
50%
67% of top prizes remain with only 50% 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
#4 of 15
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from New Jersey Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 24, 2026, 12:26 PM.
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