🎁 What $600K buys in the United States

8 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $600K. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.

What $600K covers

The numbers behind it

• 🎟️ $600K is 120,000 times the price of a $5 ticket.
• ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 603,767 tickets on Crossword Xtreme, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
• 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $18M to win $600K -- which is the whole point of the odds.

Tickets with a $600K top prize

Ticket	Price	Tickets per top prize	Top prizes left
10 YEARS OF CASH #2578 · Indiana	$5	—	None left
Decade of Dollars #2863 · Colorado	$10	1 in 1,200,287	1 left
Six Figures #1735 · Pennsylvania	$10	1 in 2,399,434	2 left
Colossal Crossword #1921 · New Jersey	$30	1 in 616,293	None left
Crossword Xtreme #1926 · New Jersey	$30	1 in 617,480	None left
Crossword Xtreme #1968 · New Jersey	$30	1 in 611,787	1 left
Crossword Xtreme #1981 · New Jersey	$30	1 in 603,767	2 left
50th Anniversary #827 · Ohio	$50	1 in 3,410,864	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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