CA · #1687 · $20

$100 or $200

California· Launched Jul 2025· 336 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.76

USA percentile

84th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

84369

$200 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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$100 or $200 is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1687). It launched in July 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 84369 top prizes of $200 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 7.94. Our models put its expected value at 0.76 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.76 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.76 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.20% of $200 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 84th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

2 tiers · % remaining
$200
84.4K/424.1K
20%
$100
321.9K/1.6M

Total unclaimed prize value: $49.06M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active CA games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
CA median0.70 EV/$
YOU · 84th
USA: 84th percentileCA: 69th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · -16%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 16% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — CA field

58 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$420.000.250.500.97YOU

No other active CA games currently clear break-even.

Top-prize claim cadence · the roll

Top-prize claim history is not published for this state.

States that report individual claim events (TX, NY, PA, FL, NC) will show a full timeline here. This game's state does not currently publish that data.

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