Washington · Game #1942

LUCKY FOR LIFE 19TH EDITION

$5per ticket

Sale status unconfirmed · Lottery report Oct 15, 2026 · Lottery game update Oct 15, 2026

Latest lottery dataData updated Oct 15, 2026

Game summary

What to know about this ticket

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Our estimate

Average payout

$2.94

Across lots of tickets, we estimate an average of $2.94 back for each $5 ticket.

$0.59 back per $1 spent · -$2.06 after the ticket cost

No daily comparison

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

$2.36

For a $5 ticket, the estimated average payout is $2.36 when the $520,000 top prize is treated as $0.

Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: -52.9%

No daily comparison

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

21.2%

About 1 in 4.72 remaining tickets

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

Prize pool changed

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.

Our estimate

Top prize · estimated value

$520,000

Lottery wording: LIFE

What does this mean?

Lifetime awards are estimated as ten years of advertised payments without discounting; this is a modeling assumption, not an official cash value.

1 still unclaimed in the lottery data.

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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

12.0%

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 882,308.23 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

186,856

Out of 993,660 prizes in the source table.

18.8% left806,804 already paid

Prize pool changed

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

From the lottery

Top prizes left

Out of 4 top prizes originally.

25.0% left3 no longer remaining

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From the lottery report for this game.

Our estimate

Estimated tickets left

882,308

4,691,900 tickets printed originally, according to the lottery.

Prize pool changed

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 4.7221.2% chance · Lottery-published
Latest estimate: 1 in 4.7221.2% chance · PrizeGauge estimate

0.01 percentage points lower than launch

Average prize payout

Original at launch: $2.94Per ticket · Estimate using original data
Latest estimate: $2.94Per ticket · PrizeGauge estimate

Approximately unchanged from launch

How we value this prize: Lifetime awards are estimated as ten years of advertised payments without discounting; this is a modeling assumption, not an official cash value.

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: $2.94
Without the top prize: $2.36

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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Our estimate

Estimated average payout today

$2.94

Estimated prize payout per ticket

Our estimate

EV Without the Top Prize

$2.36

Average prize value after treating the biggest prize as $0

Our estimate

ROI Without the Top Prize

-52.9%

How that alternate average payout compares with ticket price

Our estimate

Original EV

$2.94

Launch payout with modeled prize valuations

Our estimate

Modeled ROI

-41.1%

Estimated net return / ticket price

Our estimate

Average payout per $1 spent

$0.59

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

Our estimate

Average return after the ticket cost

-$2.06

Estimated average prize payout minus the ticket price

From the lottery

Top prizes remaining

Original top prizes: 4

Our estimate

Estimated Tickets Left

882,308

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: official initial structure. Inventory basis: official initial structure.

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

Model assumptions

Lifetime awards are estimated as ten years of advertised payments without discounting; this is a modeling assumption, not an official cash value.
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.

The official table includes a noncash or annuity prize; its label is preserved for explicit valuation.

The LIFE prize payment rate comes from the exact reviewed official ticket artwork; a cash value is not supplied by the source.

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
LIFE	$520,000.00Estimate: ten years of lifetime payments	4Published count	1Published count
$1,000	$1,000.00Published cash value	12Published count	1Published count
$100	$100.00Published cash value	2,858Published count	441Published count
$50	$50.00Published cash value	48,486Published count	7,721Published count
$20	$20.00Published cash value	97,758Published count	16,395Published count
$15	$15.00Published cash value	117,226Published count	20,624Published count
$10	$10.00Published cash value	328,576Published count	60,324Published count
$5	$5.00Published cash value	398,740Published count	81,349Published count

From the official source

The lottery’s prize table

Original overall odds: 1 in 4.72

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	Prizes already paid	Remaining prizes
LIFEPayment terms: $1,000 a week for life Count sources & details Payment terms source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `6b56a482d629eacf052ac89715e4bbb6827aedbb8fc1d756731e98cbf8d179be` Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	4	3	125.0% of 4 left
$1,000 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	12	11	18.3% of 12 left
$100 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	2,858	2,417	44115.4% of 2,858 left
$50 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	48,486	40,765	7,72115.9% of 48,486 left
$20 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	97,758	81,363	16,39516.8% of 97,758 left
$15 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	117,226	96,602	20,62417.6% of 117,226 left
$10 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	328,576	268,252	60,32418.4% of 328,576 left
$5 Count sources & details Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC Response fingerprint `da20282cbc1dd0fa6d2e9e1e7fc1a77391d43b0feccbf9e2f3583283159b3d83`	398,740	317,391	81,34920.4% of 398,740 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

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A gap means we don’t have a number

We keep the last update of each day, using Pacific 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 Last update of each day · Pacific Time

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Estimated average payout observations
Date	Estimated average payout	Change from previous day
Oct 14, 2026	—	No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026	$2.94	No daily comparison

Prizes remaining From the daily prize table · count and share left

186,856 prizes left993,660 total · 18.8% left · Oct 15, 2026

Prize pool changed

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Prizes remaining observations
Date	Prizes remaining	Unclaimed count	Total prizes	Change from previous day
Oct 14, 2026	19.0%	188,313	993,660	No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026	18.8%	186,856	993,660	Prize pool changed

Top prizes remaining Last update of each day · Pacific Time

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Top prizes remaining observations
Date	Top prizes remaining	Change from previous day
Oct 14, 2026	—	No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026	1	No daily comparison

Estimated tickets left Our estimate · ticket count

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Estimated tickets left observations
Date	Estimated tickets left	Change from previous day
Oct 14, 2026	889,188	No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026	882,308	Prize pool changed