New York · Game #1656 · Updated Sep 1, 2026

Unlock It! $3 New York Scratch-Off: Prizes Remaining

Unlock It! is a $3 scratch-off from the New York Lottery (game #1656) with overall odds of 1 in 3.92 at launch. All 4 top prizes of $60,000 have been claimed — none are left to win. The biggest prize still out there is $3,000, with 1 unclaimed, and an estimated 23% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 684,401 prizes are still out there (it started with 2,924,275).

Unlock It! New York scratch-off ticket
All 4 gone
top prizes of $60,000 — none left to win
Ticket price$3
Top prize$60,000
Launch odds1 in 3.92
Prizes remaining (all tiers)684,401
Est. tickets left ≈23%

The daily read · Sep 1, 2026

Reading the board, line by line

Skip the headlines and read the board itself: the most common win still out there on "UNLOCK IT!" is $3, and the second-biggest prize left is $500 — 87 of those are still unclaimed. A scratcher IS its prize table, and this page keeps the whole thing counted, level by level. Everything above comes from the New York Lottery's own published numbers — we just do the counting.

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Full prize table

PrizeStill out thereStarted with
$60,000 0 gone 4
$3,000 1
10
$500 87
387
$250 251
1,158
$100 1,263
5,750
$75 2,498
11,472
$50 8,670
38,920
$25 15,188
68,828
$20 35,041
160,496
$15 25,634
114,662
$10 26,069
114,662
$6 53,900
229,272
$5 214,889
917,240
$3 300,910
1,261,414
🔒 Is this one still worth buying? Ticket value, SmartScratcher Score, and best-in-state rankings for Unlock It! are in the app.

Prize counts come straight from official New York lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.

Quick answers

How many top prizes are left on Unlock It! in New York?

All 4 top prizes of $60,000 have been claimed, according to official New York lottery data from Sep 1, 2026. The biggest prize still unclaimed is $3,000, with 1 left — see the full table above for every tier.

How much does a Unlock It! ticket cost?

Unlock It! is a $3 scratch-off. It is game #1656 from the New York Lottery.

What are the odds of winning on Unlock It!?

The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 3.92, counting every prize tier. Odds shift as tickets sell and prizes get claimed — that's exactly what the prize table on this page tracks.

How fresh is this data?

Prize counts come straight from official New York lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.

These numbers tell you what's left.
The app tells you what's worth it.

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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