2 of 10
top prizes of $800,000 still out there
Ticket price$5
Top prize$800,000
Launch odds1 in 4.31
Prizes remaining (all tiers)551,894
Est. tickets left
≈16%
$1,000 A Week For Life is a $5 scratch-off from the Massachusetts Lottery (game #480) with a top prize of $800,000 and overall odds of 1 in 4.31 at launch. 8 of 10 top prizes are gone, 2 are still unclaimed, and an estimated 16% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 551,894 prizes are still out there (it started with 3,505,532).
Skip the headlines and read the board itself: the most common win still out there on "$1,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE" is $5, and the second-biggest prize left is $10,000 — 31 of those are still unclaimed. A scratcher IS its prize table, and this page keeps the whole thing counted, level by level. The numbers get re-crunched every morning, and this page moves with them.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $800,000 | 2 | 10 |
| $10,000 | 31 | 202 |
| $2,000 | 64 | 420 |
| $1,000 | 254 | 1,680 |
| $500 | 914 | 6,720 |
| $100 | 9,446 | 69,300 |
| $50 | 13,742 | 100,800 |
| $25 | 13,921 | 100,800 |
| $20 | 27,988 | 201,600 |
| $15 | 14,288 | 100,800 |
| $10 | 209,596 | 1,411,200 |
| $5 | 261,648 | 1,512,000 |
Prize counts come straight from official Massachusetts lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
2 of the 10 top prizes of $800,000 are still unclaimed, according to official Massachusetts lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
$1,000 A Week For Life is a $5 scratch-off. It is game #480 from the Massachusetts Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 4.31, counting every prize tier. Odds shift as tickets sell and prizes get claimed — that's exactly what the prize table on this page tracks.
Prize counts come straight from official Massachusetts lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.
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