2027 — $20 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1753 · $20

2027

California· Launched Oct 2026· 6 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.80

USA percentile

94th

of 2,154 games

Top prizes left

4

$5,000,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-25

Forecast sellout

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18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

2027 is a $20 scratch-off game from the California lottery (game #1753). It launched in October 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $5M remain unclaimed, as published by the California lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.00. Our models put its expected value at 0.80 per dollar, returning about $0.80 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 5 of 13 $20 games on sale in California.

THE THESIS

At 0.80 EV/$, this game ranks 5 of 13 same-price games on sale in California (median 0.79).

  1. 1.100% of $5.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 94th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$5M
4/4
100%
$100K
95/95
$2.5K
3.0K/3.0K
$500
24.8K/25.9K
$250
32.6K/34.0K
$100
130.1K/135.9K
$75
192.9K/201.3K
$50
383.1K/400.0K
$40
383.2K/400.0K
$30
766.5K/800.0K
$25
766.7K/800.0K
$20
1.2M/1.2M

Total unclaimed prize value: $184.79M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,154 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 · 94th
USA: 94th percentileCA: 85th 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

Price vs EV — CA field

80 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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

2027: prizes, value and pace

As of October 25, 2026, 4 of the 4 $5,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 3,833,426 of 4,000,310 prizes (96%) remain.

At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $16.07 on average (0.80 per dollar), which ranks 5 of 13 $20 games on sale in California, above the $20 median of 0.79. Among every California game with a computable value it is 12 of 80; nationally it sits in the 94th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Figures come from the prize data the California lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.

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