🎁 What $400K buys in the United States
16 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $400K. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $400K covers
💼 years of the median salary4.6
🏠 months of the average rent269
🛒 years of groceries64
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $400K is 80,000 times the price of a $5 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 784,387 tickets on Crossword Bonanza, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $16M to win $400K -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $400K top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 $400,000 FORTUNE#1875 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,629,662 | None left |
 $400,000 Jackpot#928 · North Carolina | $5 | 1 in 2,056,848 | 2 left |
 $5 BIG GEORGIA RAFFLE#1707 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 2,444,102 | 2 left |
 20X THE MONEY#1421 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,823,941 | 5 left |
 20X THE MONEY BONUS DOUBLER#1859 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,633,646 | None left |
 CASH#1586 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,451,298 | None left |
 FROGGER#1833 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,628,130 | 1 left |
 Lucky ROLL#1841 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,470,102 | 2 left |
 SPECIAL EDITION JUMBO BUCKS 2#1545 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,437,025 | 1 left |
 THE BIG $5 TICKET#1866 · Georgia | $5 | 1 in 1,616,788 | 3 left |
 $20,000 a Month for Life#1764 · Pennsylvania | $10 | 1 in 1,799,838 | 6 left |
 THE WIZARD OF OZ™ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ#1798 · Pennsylvania | $10 | 1 in 1,500,630 | 7 left |
 Crossword Bonanza#1905 · New Jersey | $20 | 1 in 805,693 | 2 left |
 Crossword Bonanza#1935 · New Jersey | $20 | 1 in 791,540 | 1 left |
 Crossword Bonanza#1955 · New Jersey | $20 | 1 in 784,387 | 1 left |
 Crossword Bonanza#1976 · New Jersey | $20 | 1 in 823,660 | 2 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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