494 of 18,340
top prizes of $250 still out there
Ticket price$5
Top prize$250
Launch odds1 in 4.38
Prizes remaining (all tiers)104,400
Est. tickets left
≈5%
Win $250 is a $5 scratch-off from the New York Lottery (game #1604) with a top prize of $250 and overall odds of 1 in 4.38 at launch. 17,846 of 18,340 top prizes are gone, 494 are still unclaimed, and an estimated 5% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 104,400 prizes are still out there (it started with 2,087,332).
Every scratcher is a race between the tickets running out and the prizes running out. "WIN $250" is near the end of the line — only a small slice of the print run is still out there, and 494 of 18,340 top prizes are still in play. The rest of this page is the play-by-play. If you're a regular on this game, bookmark it — this write-up refreshes with every morning's data.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $250 | 494 | 18,340 |
| $100 | 1,173 | 36,601 |
| $50 | 3,410 | 91,347 |
| $20 | 4,026 | 114,152 |
| $15 | 5,342 | 137,074 |
| $10 | 41,848 | 913,440 |
| $5 | 48,107 | 776,378 |
Prize counts come straight from official New York lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
494 of the 18,340 top prizes of $250 are still unclaimed, according to official New York lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
Win $250 is a $5 scratch-off. It is game #1604 from the New York Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 4.38, 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 York 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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