🎁 What C$500 buys in Canada
3 scratch tickets in Canada have a top prize of C$500. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What C$500 covers
🛒 months of groceries1.6
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ C$500 is 100 times the price of a C$5 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 272 tickets on FULL OF $500s, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about C$1K to win C$500 -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a C$500 top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 FULL OF $500s#2571 · Ontario | C$5 | 1 in 272.43 | 9435 left |
 Full Of 500s#26335 · Western Canada | C$5 | — | — |
 Explosion#16133 · Western Canada | C$10 | — | — |
Prizes shown are the advertised top prize before any tax, and the tickets pay smaller prizes far more often than the top one.
Other top prizes here
C$10MC$3MC$2MC$1MC$500KC$400KC$350KC$250KC$200KC$175KC$100KC$80KC$75KC$50KC$35KC$25KC$21KC$20KC$10KC$5K
Source
- 💼 Statistics Canada, median employment income — September 2026
- 🏠 Statistics Canada, quarterly rent statistics (two-bedroom, Q2 2026) — September 2026
- 🛒 Canada Food Price Report, per person — September 2026
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