$500 Cash! — $5 Kentucky Scratch-Off #980
As of October 14, 2026, $500 Cash! ($5, #980) still has 2,065 $500 top prizes unclaimed. It is #66 of 78 Kentucky scratch-offs on our list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the size of that top prize, then by how many are left, then by the better overall odds). Kentucky prints its overall odds as 1 in 3.98.
No payout figure, on purpose. Kentucky publishes how many prizes are left at each level of a game, but not how many it started with. A payout, an expected value or the odds today each need every prize level and how many were printed, so for Kentucky we show exactly what its lottery publishes and compute nothing from it. A figure built from part of a table would be wrong, not rough: it is how one state's partial table produced games that appeared to pay back more than they cost. How we treat partial prize tables.
Prizes remaining, as Kentucky publishes them
This is a partial prize table. Kentucky publishes the seven prize levels of $500 Cash! and how many of each are left. It does not publish how many of each were printed, so how much of the game has been claimed cannot be read from it. Nothing in this table is an estimate. For the complete prize structure see the game's page on the Kentucky Lottery site.
| Prize | Remaining |
|---|---|
| $500 | 2,065 |
| $100 | 5,772 |
| $50 | 8,199 |
| $20 | 14,294 |
| $15 | 14,660 |
| $10 | 180,423 |
| $5 | 164,215 |
$500 Cash!: common questions
- How many $500 top prizes are left in $500 Cash!?
- 2,065, as of October 14, 2026. Kentucky does not publish how many were printed.
- What are the odds of winning on $500 Cash!?
- Kentucky prints overall odds of 1 in 3.98 for $500 Cash!: the chance a ticket wins any prize at all, fixed when the game was printed. It does not publish the odds of each prize level, so we do not show any.
- Is $500 Cash! a good scratch-off to buy?
- We cannot price it. Kentucky publishes how many prizes are left at each level of a game, but not how many it started with, and a value needs the whole table. What the figures do say is that its top prize is still in play (2,065 left).
- How does $500 Cash! compare with other $5 Kentucky scratch-offs?
- 20 of the 21 $5 games Kentucky lists still have a top prize unclaimed. $500 Cash! is #66 of 78 on our Kentucky list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the size of that top prize, then by how many are left, then by the better overall odds).
- Where do these numbers come from?
- From the Kentucky Lottery's own prize figures, read daily. We show its prize levels as published and calculate nothing from them.
Other $5 Kentucky scratch-offs
- $5 Set For Life — top prize $520,000, 3 left, overall odds 1 in 4.14
- Queen of Hearts — top prize $125,000, 2 left, overall odds 1 in 3.89
- Kentucky Jackpot — top prize $125,000, 1 left, overall odds 1 in 3.52
- Lincoln — top prize $100,000, 2 left, overall odds 1 in 3.81
- $100,000 Jackpot — top prize $100,000, 1 left, overall odds 1 in 3.67