76 of 140
top prizes of $500 still out there
Ticket price$1
Top prize$500
Launch odds1 in 4.42
Prizes remaining (all tiers)1,118,566
Est. tickets left
≈57%
Loose Change is a $1 scratch-off from the New Jersey Lottery (game #01978) with a top prize of $500 and overall odds of 1 in 4.42 at launch. 64 of 140 top prizes are gone, 76 are still unclaimed, and an estimated 57% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 1,118,566 prizes are still out there (it started with 1,949,000).
Skip the headlines and read the board itself: the most common win still out there on "Loose Change" is a free ticket, and the second-biggest prize left is $100 — 1,029 of those are still unclaimed. A scratcher IS its prize table, and this page keeps the whole thing counted, level by level. Every line of Loose Change's prize table below is today's tally, not last month's.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 76 | 140 |
| $100 | 1,029 | 1,867 |
| $40 | 5,835 | 10,740 |
| $20 | 23,695 | 43,027 |
| $10 | 47,952 | 86,099 |
| $5 | 120,584 | 215,000 |
| $2 | 296,259 | 516,421 |
| 🎟️ Free Ticket | 623,136 | 1,075,706 |
Prize counts come straight from official New Jersey lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
76 of the 140 top prizes of $500 are still unclaimed, according to official New Jersey lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
Loose Change is a $1 scratch-off. It is game #01978 from the New Jersey Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 4.42, 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 New Jersey lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.
Prize counts are just the start. SmartScratcher turns them into a ticket value, a 0–100 score, and a straight answer for every game — so you skip the picked-clean ones and play the good ones.
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