Missouri · Game #490

BIG CASH RICHES

$5per ticket

Sale status unconfirmed · Collected Oct 15, 2026, 8:17 AM CDT

Latest lottery dataData updated Oct 15, 2026

Game summary

What to know about this ticket

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Our estimate

Average payout

$3.22

Across lots of tickets, we estimate an average of $3.22 back for each $5 ticket.

$0.64 back per $1 spent · -$1.78 after the ticket cost

<$0.01 lowervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.
Our estimate

Payout without the jackpot

$3.13

For a $5 ticket, the estimated average payout is $3.13 when the $100,000 top prize is treated as $0.

Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: -37.5%

<$0.01 lowervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.
Our estimate

Chance of Any Prize

25.1%

About 1 in 3.99 remaining tickets

Includes the top prize and prizes that only return your ticket cost. A prize does not necessarily mean a profit.

<0.01 points highervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.
From the lottery

Top prize

$100,000

132,767 still unclaimed in the lottery data.

66 fewervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
Our estimate

Chance of coming out ahead

12.3%

A prize worth more than the ticket price. Winning your ticket cost back doesn’t count as coming out ahead.

Our estimate

Chance of the top prize

<0.1%

About 1 in 1,043,931.2 remaining tickets. This is an estimate.

Remaining prizes and tickets

What’s left in this game

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Worked out from lottery data

Unclaimed prizes

261,628

Out of 1,482,259 prizes in the source table.

17.7% left

158 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

Counts include tickets already sold whose prizes haven’t been claimed.

From the lottery

Top prizes left

132,767

Out of 689,479 top prizes originally.

19.3% left556,712 no longer remaining

66 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

From the lottery report for this game.

Our estimate

Estimated tickets left

1,043,931

5,914,213 tickets estimated at the start.

631 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

Tickets left are an estimate. Unclaimed prizes don’t tell us exactly how many tickets are still for sale.

First on sale
Nov 25, 2024

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

Original and current numbers

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Odds of any prize

Original at launch
1 in 3.9925.1% chance · Lottery-published
Latest estimate
1 in 3.9925.1% chance · PrizeGauge estimate

Approximately unchanged from launch

Average prize payout

Original at launch
$3.46Per ticket · Estimate using original data
Latest estimate
$3.22Per ticket · PrizeGauge estimate

$0.23 per ticket lower 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.

Compare the price and average payouts

Here’s how the ticket price compares with the average prize payout we estimate. Your ticket could pay more, less, or nothing.

Ticket costs
$5.00
Estimated average payout
$3.22
Without the top prize
$3.13
What do these numbers mean?
From the lottery

Published by the lottery.

Worked out from lottery data

Worked out from the lottery’s own numbers.

Our estimate

Our best estimate, using data and assumptions we explain.

Average payout
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.
Return vs. ticket price
How the estimated average payout stacks up against what you spend. A minus sign means the average payout is less than the ticket price.
Payout without the jackpot
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.
Chance of Any Prize
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.
Top Prizes Left
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
Estimated Tickets Left
Our estimate of how many tickets may remain. The lottery does not publish this exact number, and sold but unclaimed tickets can affect it.
How reliable is the estimate?
How much trust to put in the estimate. It is not your chance of winning. Unknown means we don’t have a rating.
What does this mean?
Each ticket is a gamble. Better-looking numbers don’t promise a winning ticket.
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The numbers behind the ticket

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Our estimate

Estimated average payout today

$3.22

Estimated prize payout per ticket

Our estimate

EV Without the Top Prize

$3.13

Average prize value after treating the biggest prize as $0

Our estimate

ROI Without the Top Prize

-37.5%

How that alternate average payout compares with ticket price

Our estimate

Original EV

$3.46

Launch payout with modeled prize valuations

Our estimate

Modeled ROI

-35.5%

Estimated net return / ticket price

Our estimate

Average payout per $1 spent

$0.64

A 70¢ payout per $1 spent means a 30¢ average loss

Our estimate

Average return after the ticket cost

-$1.78

Estimated average prize payout minus the ticket price

From the lottery

Top prizes remaining

132,767

Original top prizes: 689,479

Our estimate

Estimated Tickets Left

1,043,931

An estimate, not an exact count from the lottery

Our estimate

Analytics availability

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 →

How this estimate was made

Launch basis: published inception odds. Inventory basis: inferred from prize odds.

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.

Model assumptions
  • The complete original winning-prize counts and published overall odds describe one unchanged print cohort.
  • At least two tiers with 500 or more original prizes estimate remaining ticket inventory, weighted by original prize count; prize claims can lag ticket sales.

What goes into this estimate

Uses the complete prize table and changes in prize counts.

Original prize table: complete. Remaining prize table: complete.

See calculated counts and prize-value assumptions

These are the model’s inputs. A calculated or estimated count is separate from the literal count in the prize table.

Count and value inputs considered by the model
Prize wordingValue usedOriginal count usedRemaining count used
$5$5.00Published cash value689,479Published count132,767Published count
$10$10.00Published cash value295,552Published count49,498Published count
$15$15.00Published cash value295,562Published count46,624Published count
$20$20.00Published cash value73,864Published count12,164Published count
$25$25.00Published cash value35,768Published count6,038Published count
$40$40.00Published cash value49,318Published count7,871Published count
$50$50.00Published cash value14,881Published count2,406Published count
$75$75.00Published cash value3,901Published count594Published count
$100$100.00Published cash value21,967Published count3,343Published count
$200$200.00Published cash value972Published count172Published count
$500$500.00Published cash value184Published count27Published count
$1,000$1,000.00Published cash value769Published count120Published count
$5,000$5,000.00Published cash value29Published count2Published count
$20,000$20,000.00Published cash value6Published count1Published count
$100,000$100,000.00Published cash value7Published count1Published count

From the official source

The lottery’s prize table

Original overall odds: 1 in 3.99

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 amounts and counts from this report. Current odds and average payout contributions, where shown, are estimates.
PrizeOriginal prizesRemaining prizes
$5689,479132,76719.3% of 689,479 left
$10295,55249,49816.7% of 295,552 left
$15295,56246,62415.8% of 295,562 left
$2073,86412,16416.5% of 73,864 left
$2535,7686,03816.9% of 35,768 left
$4049,3187,87116.0% of 49,318 left
$5014,8812,40616.2% of 14,881 left
$753,90159415.2% of 3,901 left
$10021,9673,34315.2% of 21,967 left
$20097217217.7% of 972 left
$5001842714.7% of 184 left
$1,00076912015.6% of 769 left
$5,0002926.9% of 29 left
$20,0006116.7% of 6 left
$100,0007114.3% of 7 left

About the estimates

Methodology & source

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.

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Game history

See how the numbers have changed

A gap means we don’t have a number

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.

Estimated average payout Our estimate · dollars per ticket
<$0.0001 lowervs Oct 14, 2026

Extra decimals show estimate changes smaller than 1¢. We calculate daily changes before rounding.

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$3.18$3.34$3.50Original average payout $3.4551Oct 14, 2026: $3.2228Oct 15, 2026: $3.2227Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Estimated average payout observations
DateEstimated average payoutChange from previous day
Oct 14, 2026$3.2228No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026$3.2227<$0.0001 lower compared with Oct 14, 2026
Prizes remaining From the daily prize table · count and share left

261,628 prizes left1,482,259 total · 17.7% left · Oct 15, 2026

158 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

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17.6%17.7%17.7%Oct 14, 2026: 17.7%Oct 15, 2026: 17.7%Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Prizes remaining observations
DatePrizes remainingUnclaimed countTotal prizesChange from previous day
Oct 14, 202617.7%261,7861,482,259No daily comparison
Oct 15, 202617.7%261,6281,482,259158 fewer compared with Oct 14, 2026
Top prizes remaining From the lottery · published count
66 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

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132.75K132.8K132.85KOct 14, 2026: 132,833Oct 15, 2026: 132,767Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Top prizes remaining observations
DateTop prizes remainingChange from previous day
Oct 14, 2026132,833No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026132,76766 fewer compared with Oct 14, 2026
Estimated tickets left Our estimate · ticket count
631 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

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1.04M1.04M1.04MOct 14, 2026: 1,044,562Oct 15, 2026: 1,043,931Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Estimated tickets left observations
DateEstimated tickets leftChange from previous day
Oct 14, 20261,044,562No daily comparison
Oct 15, 20261,043,931631 fewer compared with Oct 14, 2026