How many $500,000 prizes are left in Emerald Mine 9X?

1 of 10 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 1,698,797.

What are the odds of winning anything on Emerald Mine 9X?

1 in 4.30 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.00 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 4.30, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 7.56.

Is Emerald Mine 9X worth buying?

Its current payout is 66.4% ($3.32 back per $5 ticket), rank #63 of 70 in Florida. The best $5 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is 50X The Cash (#1553, $5) at 78.2%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.

How many Emerald Mine 9X tickets are left?

We estimate 1,698,797 of roughly 22,630,920 printed tickets are unsold (92.5% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.

When did Emerald Mine 9X launch and is it still on sale?

It launched on December 4, 2023. It is still on sale.

Emerald Mine 9X — $5 Florida Scratch-Off #5055

Data captured October 25, 2026, 03:34 UTC · launched December 4, 2023

Emerald Mine 9X Florida scratch-off ticket

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Emerald Mine 9X (#5055) is a $5 Florida scratch-off launched on December 4, 2023. As of October 25, 2026 it ranks #63 of 70 active games on current payout (66.4%, $3.32 expected back per ticket) and #20 of 21 $5 games, #57 on any-prize odds (1 in 4.30) and #21 on top-prize odds (1 in 1,698,797). Since launch the payout has fallen 3.0 points (69.3% at launch) and your chance of winning something has fallen 6.9% (1 in 4.00 at launch). 1 of 10 top prizes of $500,000 remain, and we estimate 1,698,797 tickets are still unsold (92.5% sold). That is below average for Florida; the Florida ranking lists show better payouts, including at $5.

Current payout

66.4%

69.3% at launch

Expected value

$3.32

per $5 ticket

Any-prize odds

1 in 4.30

1 in 4.00 at launch

Cash odds

1 in 4.30

excludes free tickets

Profit odds

1 in 7.56

win more than $5

$600+ odds

1 in 10,820

claim-at-lottery prizes

Top prizes left

1 of 10

$500,000 each

Tickets remaining

7.5%

≈ 1,698,797 tickets

Top prize still waiting. Last 7% of tickets, a top prize still waiting: better jackpot odds than on launch day (1 in 1.7 million, was 1 in 2.3 million). More Florida games like this.

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in Emerald Mine 9X, 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, 395,465 of 5,661,431 prizes (7.0%) are still out there.

Prize	Odds at launch	Odds now	Total	Claimed	Remaining	% left
$500,000	1 in 2,263,026	1 in 1,698,797	10	9	1	10.0%
$10,000	1 in 411,459	1 in 212,350	55	47	8	14.5%
$2,000	1 in 224,062	1 in 339,759	101	96	5	5.0%
$1,000	1 in 11,930	1 in 11,880	1,897	1,754	143	7.5%
$500	1 in 3,021	1 in 3,818	7,490	7,045	445	5.9%
$250	1 in 2,006	1 in 2,434	11,282	10,584	698	6.2%
$100	1 in 240.0	1 in 272.2	94,384	88,144	6,240	6.6%
$50	1 in 238.0	1 in 233.4	95,162	87,882	7,280	7.7%
$40	1 in 238.0	1 in 312.1	95,214	89,771	5,443	5.7%
$30	1 in 300.0	1 in 390.2	75,376	71,022	4,354	5.8%
$20	1 in 60.0	1 in 53.5	377,171	345,434	31,737	8.4%
$10	1 in 9.00	1 in 10.1	2,640,197	2,471,818	168,379	6.4%
$5	1 in 10.0	1 in 9.95	2,263,092	2,092,360	170,732	7.5%
All prizes	1 in 4.00	1 in 4.30	5,661,431	5,265,966	395,465	7.0%

How Emerald Mine 9X has moved

Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking Emerald Mine 9X. 121 daily readings.

Recent claims of $1,000 and up

October 10, 2026: one $2,000 prize was claimed; 5 remain.
September 23, 2026: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 143 remain.
September 17, 2026: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 144 remain.
September 16, 2026: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 146 remain.
September 15, 2026: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 147 remain.
September 10, 2026: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 148 remain.
September 9, 2026: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 149 remain.
September 24, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 224 remain.
September 23, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 225 remain.
September 20, 2025: one $2,000 prize was claimed; 9 remain.
September 18, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 226 remain.
September 10, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 227 remain.

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

Emerald Mine 9X: common questions

How many $500,000 prizes are left in Emerald Mine 9X?: 1 of 10 as of October 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 1,698,797.
What are the odds of winning anything on Emerald Mine 9X?: 1 in 4.30 as of October 25, 2026, compared with 1 in 4.00 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 4.30, and the odds of winning more than the $5 ticket price are 1 in 7.56.
Is Emerald Mine 9X worth buying?: Its current payout is 66.4% ($3.32 back per $5 ticket), rank #63 of 70 in Florida. The best $5 alternative as of October 25, 2026 is 50X The Cash (#1553, $5) at 78.2%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many Emerald Mine 9X tickets are left?: We estimate 1,698,797 of roughly 22,630,920 printed tickets are unsold (92.5% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did Emerald Mine 9X launch and is it still on sale?: It launched on December 4, 2023. It is still on sale.

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