How many $1,000 prizes are left in $500 A Week For Life?

4 of 28 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 829,991.

What are the odds of winning anything on $500 A Week For Life?

1 in 4.34 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.83 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 4.34, and the odds of winning more than the $1 ticket price are 1 in 8.11.

Is $500 A Week For Life worth buying?

Its current payout is 56.0% ($0.56 back per $1 ticket), rank #— of 70 in Florida. The best $1 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is $10,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER (#1583, $1) at 64.8%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.

How many $500 A Week For Life tickets are left?

We estimate 3,319,964 of roughly 19,402,200 printed tickets are unsold (83.0% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.

When did $500 A Week For Life launch and is it still on sale?

It launched on July 1, 2025. It has ended.

$500 A Week For Life — $1 Florida Scratch-Off #1598

Final figures from October 24, 2026 · launched July 1, 2025 · ended

$500 A Week For Life Florida scratch-off ticket

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$500 A Week For Life (#1598) was a $1 Florida scratch-off launched on July 1, 2025. Its final figures, from October 24, 2026, were 56.0% payout ($0.56 expected back per ticket), 1 in 4.34 for any prize and 1 in 829,991 for the top prize. Since launch the payout has risen 2.3 points (53.7% at launch) and your chance of winning something has risen 11.3% (1 in 4.83 at launch). 4 of 28 top prizes of $1,000 were never claimed, and we estimate 83.0% of its tickets had sold. $500 A Week For Life is no longer on sale in Florida; the figures below are final as of October 24, 2026 and prizes can be claimed until October 23, 2026.

Current payout

56.0%

53.7% at launch

Expected value

$0.56

per $1 ticket

Any-prize odds

1 in 4.34

1 in 4.83 at launch

Cash odds

1 in 4.34

excludes free tickets

Profit odds

1 in 8.11

win more than $1

$600+ odds

1 in 829,991

claim-at-lottery prizes

Top prizes left

4 of 28

$1,000 each

Tickets remaining

17.0%

≈ 3,319,964 tickets

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in $500 A Week For Life, with the odds printed at launch, the odds today given what is left, and how much of each tier is still unclaimed. To set its odds of $1,000 or more (or any other prize size) against every other Florida game, see odds by prize size. Across all tiers, 765,779 of 4,021,177 prizes (19.0%) are still out there.

Prize	Odds at launch	Odds now	Total	Claimed	Remaining	% left
$1,000	1 in 692,936	1 in 829,991	28	24	4	14.3%
$200	1 in 34,159	1 in 36,087	568	476	92	16.2%
$100	1 in 7,642	1 in 10,060	2,539	2,209	330	13.0%
$40	1 in 2,409	1 in 2,894	8,054	6,907	1,147	14.2%
$20	1 in 300.0	1 in 329.5	64,661	54,584	10,077	15.6%
$10	1 in 150.0	1 in 158.1	129,252	108,259	20,993	16.2%
$5	1 in 75.0	1 in 76.9	258,680	215,493	43,187	16.7%
$4	1 in 60.0	1 in 61.9	323,624	269,947	53,677	16.6%
$2	1 in 14.0	1 in 11.9	1,422,841	1,143,167	279,674	19.7%
$1	1 in 11.0	1 in 9.31	1,810,926	1,454,329	356,597	19.7%
$500 WK/LIFE	1 in 4,850,550	1 in 3,319,964	4	3	1	25.0%
All prizes	1 in 4.83	1 in 4.34	4,021,177	3,255,398	765,779	19.0%

How $500 A Week For Life has moved

Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking $500 A Week For Life. 121 daily readings.

Recent claims of $1,000 and up

September 10, 2025: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 12 remain.
September 9, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 14 remain.
August 28, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 15 remain.
August 26, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 16 remain.
August 23, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 17 remain.
August 22, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 18 remain.
August 20, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 19 remain.
August 16, 2025: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 20 remain.
August 12, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 22 remain.
August 9, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 23 remain.
August 7, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 24 remain.
July 18, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 25 remain.

Derived from day-to-day changes in the official remaining-prize counts, so the date is when the lottery published the change.

$500 A Week For Life: common questions

How many $1,000 prizes are left in $500 A Week For Life?: 4 of 28 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 829,991.
What are the odds of winning anything on $500 A Week For Life?: 1 in 4.34 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.83 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 4.34, and the odds of winning more than the $1 ticket price are 1 in 8.11.
Is $500 A Week For Life worth buying?: Its current payout is 56.0% ($0.56 back per $1 ticket), rank #— of 70 in Florida. The best $1 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is $10,000 GOLD RUSH MULTIPLIER (#1583, $1) at 64.8%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many $500 A Week For Life tickets are left?: We estimate 3,319,964 of roughly 19,402,200 printed tickets are unsold (83.0% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did $500 A Week For Life launch and is it still on sale?: It launched on July 1, 2025. It has ended.

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