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Weak valueActiveWin For Life! · $5 · New Jersey Lottery
Win For Life!: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.36 on average.
▼ -1.4 pts vs launch#15 of 20 · $5 NJ games
▼ -1.4 pts vs launch#15 of 20 · $5 NJ games
Win For Life! is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the New Jersey state lottery. Its current expected value is 67.2%, down 1.4 percentage points from the launch value of 68.6%. 1 of the original 3 $10,000 A MONTH/LIF top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 65% of the 13.0M printed tickets have been sold.
67.2%
expected return
1 in 4.35
odds of any win
1 of 3
$1.8M jackpots left
65%
claimed · 8.5M of 13M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 1,035,151 winning tickets still unclaimed.
14 win more than $5
$10 – $100, an actual profit
9 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
77 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 3,492 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.36 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$2.92 · 58.4% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $10K
$0.05 · 0.9% of price
Jackpots $1.8M+
$0.39 · 7.9% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
59.3%
Just 1 ticket out of 4.5M 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
1,035,094 winning tickets remain in this range: 87% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
65% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Nov 2025.
13M
tickets printed
8.5M
tickets claimed · 65%
4.5M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
33%
Tickets left
35%
33% of top prizes remain with 35% 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
#15 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from New Jersey Lottery published claim data.
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