🎁 What $15M buys in the United States
10 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $15M. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $15M covers
💼 years of the median salary172
🏠 months of the average rent10,087
🛒 years of groceries2,410
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $15M is 500,000 times the price of a $30 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 3,043,495 tickets on 40 Years of Play!, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $122M to win $15M -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $15M top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 $15,000,000 COLOSSAL MILLIONS#491 · Massachusetts | $30 | 1 in 5,033,145 | 2 left |
 $15,000,000 MAGNIFICENT MILLIONS#542 · Massachusetts | $30 | 1 in 5,033,756 | 2 left |
 $15,000,000 PLATINUM PAYOUT#1647 · Florida | $30 | 1 in 7,953,381 | 2 left |
 $15MM DIAMOND SPECTACULAR#1608 · Florida | $30 | 1 in 9,716,396 | None left |
 300X#404 · Massachusetts | $30 | 1 in 5,368,451 | 1 left |
 DIAMOND DELUXE#458 · Massachusetts | $30 | 1 in 5,031,922 | 1 left |
 FLORIDA 300X THE CASH#5048 · Florida | $30 | 1 in 11,699,510 | 1 left |
 MILLIONS#373 · Massachusetts | $30 | 1 in 6,043,781 | None left |
 40 Years of Play!#1660 · California | $40 | 1 in 3,043,495 | 1 left |
 Royal Jackpot#1718 · California | $40 | 1 in 3,062,091 | 3 left |
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
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Source
- 💼 US Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 — September 2026
- 🏠 US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 median gross rent (table B25064) — September 2026
- 🛒 BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, food at home — September 2026
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