Double Your Money is a $5 scratch-off from the New York Lottery (game #1698) with a top prize of $500,000 and overall odds of 1 in 5.18 at launch. 2 of 3 top prizes are gone, 1 is still unclaimed, and an estimated 45% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 580,703 prizes are still out there (it started with 1,301,366).
Progress report on "DOUBLE YOUR MONEY": About half of the tickets have been scratched, putting it about halfway through its run. The part worth watching is the race between the tickets running out and the top prizes running out — right now, the top prizes are going faster than the tickets are — the wrong kind of race. The numbers get re-crunched every morning, and this page moves with them.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 1 | 3 |
| $2,000 | 27 | 56 |
| $400 | 141 | 308 |
| $200 | 410 | 956 |
| $100 | 6,929 | 16,383 |
| $50 | 13,573 | 31,932 |
| $40 | 2,493 | 5,799 |
| $25 | 29,359 | 67,348 |
| $20 | 88,724 | 202,062 |
| $15 | 90,222 | 202,026 |
| $10 | 348,824 | 774,493 |
Prize counts come straight from official New York lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
1 of the 3 top prizes of $500,000 are still unclaimed, according to official New York lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
Double Your Money is a $5 scratch-off. It is game #1698 from the New York Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 5.18, 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.
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