40 Years of Play!
40 Years of Play! is a $40 California scratch-off, game #1660. The $15,000,000 top prize launched at 1 in 3,046,299. Right now 1 of 7 of those top prizes are still sitting unclaimed.
- Ticket price
- $40
- Top prize
- $15,000,000
- Top prizes left
- 1 / 7
- Launch odds
- 1 in 3,046,299
- Print run
- 21,324,093
- Odds now 🔒
- 1 in •••Members
The full prize breakdown for 40 Years of Play!
Every prize level, the launch odds printed on the ticket, and how many prizes are still unclaimed. That is the complete public picture, the same numbers California reports. The one thing we hold back is the odds recalculated for today, which is the members number.
| Prize | Launch odds | Odds now 🔒 | Prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
| $15,000,000 | 1 in 3,046,299 | 1 in •••🔒 | 1 / 7 |
| $100,000 | 1 in 1,523,150 | 1 in •••🔒 | 1 / 14 |
| $40,000 | 1 in 117,165 | 1 in •••🔒 | 23 / 182 |
| $10,000 | 1 in 117,165 | 1 in •••🔒 | 23 / 182 |
| $4,000 | 1 in 5,976 | 1 in •••🔒 | 364 / 3,568 |
| $1,000 | 1 in 7,978 | 1 in •••🔒 | 281 / 2,673 |
| $400 | 1 in 80 | 1 in •••🔒 | 24,472 / 266,797 |
| $200 | 1 in 90 | 1 in •••🔒 | 21,825 / 235,977 |
| $100 | 1 in 38 | 1 in •••🔒 | 52,596 / 568,406 |
| $80 | 1 in 10 | 1 in •••🔒 | 200,059 / 2,132,781 |
| $40 | 1 in 5 | 1 in •••🔒 | 417,089 / 4,264,665 |
The launch odds above are printed on the ticket and never change. What changes every day is the real odds, once you count the prizes and tickets still left. Members see that recalculated number for every tier here, plus our buy or skip call and where this game ranks against the rest of the board.
Launch odds vs. real odds on 40 Years of Play!
The odds printed on 40 Years of Play! were set the day it went to print and they never move. The real odds do, every single day, as prizes get claimed and tickets sell. When the $15,000,000 prizes get scooped up faster than the tickets sell, the real odds on that top prize get worse than what’s on the front. When tickets sell faster than the big prizes go, they get better. With 1 of 7 top prizes still out there, whether 40 Years of Play! is worth your money comes down to the odds today, and that’s the number members see.
40 Years of Play! questions
- Does 40 Years of Play! still have its top prize?
- Yes. 1 of 7 $15,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed on 40 Years of Play! (California game #1660), going by the latest numbers the California Lottery reports.
- What are the real odds on 40 Years of Play! right now?
- The $15,000,000 top prize launched at 1 in 3,046,299, and that is the number printed on the ticket. Those odds were locked in the day the game printed and they never move. The odds that actually matter get recalculated from the prizes and tickets still left today, and that live number is the one members see.
- How much is a 40 Years of Play! ticket?
- 40 Years of Play! costs $40 in California.
- Why doesn't the California Lottery just tell me this?
- Because the odds printed on the ticket make every game look identical from the day it launches to the day it ends. The lottery has no reason to point out that a game's best prizes are already claimed. We read the remaining-prize data California publishes every day and do the math they leave out.
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