CA · #1709 · $20

$5,000,000 Superstar

California· Launched Dec 2025· 233 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.74

USA percentile

79th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$5,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$5,000,000 Superstar is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1709). It launched in December 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $5M remains unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.43. Our models put its expected value at 0.74 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.74 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.74 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.20% of $5.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 79th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$5M
1/5
20%
$100K
49/130
$10K
216/510
$1K
1.6K/3.8K
$500
41.5K/101.4K
$100
109.5K/266.4K
$50
208.5K/507.0K
$40
208.7K/507.0K
$30
419.5K/1.0M
$20
845.0K/2.0M

Total unclaimed prize value: $93.65M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 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 median0.71 EV/$
YOU · 79th
USA: 79th percentileCA: 63th 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

67 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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