Average payout
Across lots of tickets, we estimate an average of $15.31 back for each $20 ticket.
$0.77 back per $1 spent · -$4.69 after the ticket cost
No daily comparisonIowa · Game #774
Sale status unconfirmed · Collected Oct 15, 2026, 8:16 AM CDT
Game summary
Across lots of tickets, we estimate an average of $15.31 back for each $20 ticket.
$0.77 back per $1 spent · -$4.69 after the ticket cost
No daily comparisonFor a $20 ticket, the estimated average payout is $12.76 when the $250,000 top prize is treated as $0.
Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: -36.2%
No daily comparisonAbout 1 in 2.89 remaining tickets
Includes the top prize and prizes that only return your ticket cost. A prize does not necessarily mean a profit.
No daily comparison8 still unclaimed in the lottery data.
Prize pool changedA prize worth more than the ticket price. Winning your ticket cost back doesn’t count as coming out ahead.
About 1 in 98,250.03 remaining tickets. This is an estimate.
Remaining prizes and tickets
Out of 430,462 prizes in the source table.
Estimated remaining prizes: 272,093.
Worked out from the model’s count inputs below. The source does not publish a complete remaining count.
Counts include tickets already sold whose prizes haven’t been claimed.
Out of 10 top prizes originally.
80.0% left2 no longer remaining
Prize pool changedFrom the lottery report for this game.
About 1,243,500 tickets printed originally, according to the lottery.
No daily comparisonTickets left are an estimate. Unclaimed prizes don’t tell us exactly how many tickets are still for sale.
We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →
Original vs. current
See the original numbers next to what we estimate for the tickets left.
0.02 percentage points higher than launch
$0.52 per ticket higher than launch
A smaller “1 in” number means a higher chance. Any prize includes prizes that only return the ticket cost. Original odds may be rounded; current values are estimates, not guaranteed outcomes.
Here’s how the ticket price compares with the average prize payout we estimate. Your ticket could pay more, less, or nothing.
Published by the lottery.
Worked out from the lottery’s own numbers.
Our best estimate, using data and assumptions we explain.
Estimated prize payout per ticket
Average prize value after treating the biggest prize as $0
How that alternate average payout compares with ticket price
Launch payout with modeled prize valuations
Estimated net return / ticket price
A 70¢ payout per $1 spent means a 30¢ average loss
Estimated average prize payout minus the ticket price
Original top prizes: 10
An estimate, not an exact count from the lottery
Launch: available
Full current EV: available
Without top prize: available
Chance of any prize: available
Confidence rating not published
We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →
Launch basis: official initial structure. Inventory basis: official initial structure.
The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.
The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.
The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.
The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.
Uses a partial prize table. Missing rows need extra assumptions.
Original prize table: complete. Remaining prize table: partial or unavailable.
Iowa publishes claimed and unclaimed counts for prizes of $50 and up. Lower-prize remaining counts are unavailable.
Original prize counts, original odds and approximate printed-ticket population come from the linked official game-rules PDF; current claimed and unclaimed counts remain separate observations.
These are the model’s inputs. A calculated or estimated count is separate from the literal count in the prize table.
| Prize wording | Value used | Original count used | Remaining count used |
|---|---|---|---|
| $20 | $20.00Published cash value | 165,800Published count | 104,800Estimated from prize depletion |
| $25 | $25.00Published cash value | 82,900Published count | 52,400Estimated from prize depletion |
| $40 | $40.00Published cash value | 82,900Published count | 52,400Estimated from prize depletion |
| $50 | $50.00Published cash value | 82,900Published count | 52,469Published count |
| $100 | $100.00Published cash value | 12,435Published count | 7,789Published count |
| $200 | $200.00Published cash value | 1,514Published count | 952Published count |
| $500 | $500.00Published cash value | 1,552Published count | 988Published count |
| $1,000 | $1,000.00Published cash value | 311Published count | 203Published count |
| $2,000 | $2,000.00Published cash value | 99Published count | 60Published count |
| $5,000 | $5,000.00Published cash value | 41Published count | 24Published count |
| $250,000 | $250,000.00Published cash value | 10Published count | 8Published count |
From the official source
These are the source’s published rows. A dash means the count is not published. Calculated original totals are labeled, and any derived remaining counts appear separately in the model inputs.
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| Prize | Original prizes | Prizes already paid | Original odds · from lottery | Remaining prizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$20Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint59df659e462f382173ce2919d706c9a2c925d0801d07845303c986401c3a1ad2 | 165,800 | — | 1 in 7.5 | — |
$25Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint59df659e462f382173ce2919d706c9a2c925d0801d07845303c986401c3a1ad2 | 82,900 | — | 1 in 15 | — |
$40Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint59df659e462f382173ce2919d706c9a2c925d0801d07845303c986401c3a1ad2 | 82,900 | — | 1 in 15 | — |
$50Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 82,900 | 30,431 | 1 in 15 | 52,46963.3% of 82,900 left |
$100Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 12,435 | 4,646 | 1 in 100 | 7,78962.6% of 12,435 left |
$200Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 1,514 | 562 | 1 in 821.33 | 95262.9% of 1,514 left |
$500Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 1,552 | 564 | 1 in 801.22 | 98863.7% of 1,552 left |
$1,000Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 311 | 108 | 1 in 3,998.39 | 20365.3% of 311 left |
$2,000Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 99 | 39 | 1 in 12,560.61 | 6060.6% of 99 left |
$5,000Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 41 | 17 | 1 in 30,329.27 | 2458.5% of 41 left |
$250,000Count sources & detailsOriginal count source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprintf30851c67decc857b797f1cd77483fb2ddb571ea00fa1f91d7a7e0223ebb82a1Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC Response fingerprint215b4fd3c9728eed719e3ef937f574008e4e820bf75b06811e6732525ffd251a | 10 | 2 | 1 in 124,350 | 880.0% of 10 left |
About the estimates
Each lottery publishes different information. We use the available game data and stated assumptions to estimate average payouts and tickets left. An unclaimed prize count is not a count of tickets still for sale.
Published prize observations stay separate from estimates. The model uses this game's reported coverage, ticket inventory and count assumptions; unavailable values retain their source explanations.
How we work it out →Game history
We keep the last update of each day, using Central Time. If a day has no number, we leave a gap. We don’t fill in guesses.
Past numbers include calculations from archived prize reports. This covers the dates we have collected. 7-day change: insufficient history. 30-day change: insufficient history.
We need more daily numbers to chart estimated average payout. At least two days with available values are needed.
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| Date | Estimated average payout | Change from previous day |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | — | No daily comparison |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $15.31 | No daily comparison |
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| Date | Prizes remaining | Unclaimed count | Total prizes | Change from previous day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | — | — | — | No daily comparison |
| Oct 15, 2026 | — | — | 430,462 | No daily comparison |
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| Date | Top prizes remaining | Change from previous day |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | 8 | No daily comparison |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 8 | Prize pool changed |
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| Date | Estimated tickets left | Change from previous day |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | — | No daily comparison |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 786,000 | No daily comparison |