Nebraska · Game #1405

Santa's CashNew!

$2per ticket

Sale status unconfirmed · Lottery report Oct 18, 2026 · Lottery game update Oct 18, 2026

Latest lottery dataData updated Oct 19, 2026

Game summary

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Average payout

Unavailable

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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.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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Payout without the jackpot

Unavailable

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Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: Unavailable

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.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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Chance of Any Prize

Unavailable

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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Top prize

Unavailable

The lottery report doesn’t give a separate top-prize count for this game.

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

Unavailable

There isn’t enough usable data to estimate the chance of a prize above the ticket price.

Our estimate

Chance of the top prize

Unavailable

We don’t have enough data to estimate today’s top-prize odds.

Remaining prizes and tickets

What’s left in this game

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Unclaimed prizes

Not published

Out of 144,889 prizes in the source table.

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

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Top prizes left

Not published

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Estimated tickets left

Unavailable

602,738 tickets estimated at the start.

Tickets 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

Original and current numbers

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Odds of any prize

Original at launch: 1 in 4.1624.0% chance · Lottery-published
Latest estimate: UnavailableCurrent estimate unavailable

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

Average prize payout

Original at launch: UnavailablePer ticket · Estimate using original data
Latest estimate: UnavailablePer ticket · PrizeGauge estimate

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

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: $2.00
Estimated average payout: Unavailable
Without the top prize: Unavailable

What do these numbers mean?

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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.

Take a closer look: prizes, calculations & sources

Launch: insufficient data

Full current EV: insufficient data

Without top prize: insufficient data

Chance of any prize: insufficient data

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: unavailable. Inventory basis: inferred from prize odds.

Some prizes, such as lifetime payments or free tickets, don’t have a confirmed cash value. We can’t show a full average payout.

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.

What goes into this estimate

Uses a partial prize table. Missing rows need extra assumptions.

Original prize table: complete. Remaining prize table: partial or unavailable.

Nebraska publishes remaining counts only for its top prize levels. Original winning-combination counts are summed by prize value; lower-tier remaining counts remain null.

This newly listed game was not yet present in the latest published remaining-prize PDF.

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 wording	Value used	Original count used	Remaining count used
$5	$5.00Published cash value	40,200Published count	—Unavailable
$10	$10.00Published cash value	12,060Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$15	$15.00Published cash value	12,060Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$20	$20.00Published cash value	8,040Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$25	$25.00Published cash value	111Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$50	$50.00Published cash value	36Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$100	$100.00Published cash value	18Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
$5,000	$5,000.00Published cash value	4Calculated sum of published rows	—Unavailable
Free $2 Ticket	—Cash value unavailable	72,360Published count	—Unavailable

From the official source

The lottery’s prize table

Original overall odds: 1 in 4.16

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.
Prize	Original prizes	Remaining prizes
$5 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 5: 40,200 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	40,200	—
$10 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 10: 3,015 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 10: 4,020 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 10: 5,025 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	12,060Calculated total	—
$15 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 15: 4,020 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 15: 4,020 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 15: 4,020 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	12,060Calculated total	—
$20 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 20: 2,010 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 20: 3,015 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 20: 2,010 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 20: 1,005 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	8,040Calculated total	—
$25 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 25: 21 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 25: 21 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 25: 21 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 25: 24 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 25: 24 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	111Calculated total	—
$50 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 50: 9 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 50: 9 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 50: 9 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 50: 9 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	36Calculated total	—
$100 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 100: 3 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 100: 3 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 100: 6 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 100: 6 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	18Calculated total	—
$5,000 Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: 5000: 2 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` 5000: 2 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Original count source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	4Calculated total	—
Free $2 Ticket Count sources & details The original total adds these separately published counts: Free $2 Ticket: 72,360 Row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 19, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC Response fingerprint `71023914a936643b1f5ba641833a785aa9acb6396fd7cbbb03161ac1d466ff06`	72,360	—

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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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Past numbers preserve the estimates published on each day. This covers the dates we have collected. 7-day change: insufficient history. 30-day change: insufficient history.

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Estimated average payout observations
Date	Estimated average payout	Change from previous day
Oct 19, 2026	—	No daily comparison

Prizes remaining Last update of each day · Central Time

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Prizes remaining observations
Date	Prizes remaining	Unclaimed count	Total prizes	Change from previous day
Oct 19, 2026	—	—	144,889	No daily comparison

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Top prizes remaining observations
Date	Top prizes remaining	Change from previous day
Oct 19, 2026	—	No daily comparison

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Date	Estimated tickets left	Change from previous day
Oct 19, 2026	—	No daily comparison