California Dreamin' — $5 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1680 · $5

California Dreamin'

California· Launched Jun 2025· 434 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.76

USA percentile

85th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

5

$555,555 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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California Dreamin' is a $5 scratch-off game from the California (game #1680). It launched in June 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 5 top prizes of $555.555 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.75. 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. 1.42% of $555,555 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 85th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$555.6K
5/12
42%
$5K
6/30
$1K
62/302
$500
898/4.6K
$100
10.7K/53.2K
$50
18.4K/91.5K
$25
40.4K/197.2K
$20
92.2K/455.5K
$15
112.0K/546.2K
$10
212.6K/1.0M
$5
245.5K/1.1M
$5
299.6K/1.4M

Total unclaimed prize value: $14.69M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 · 85th
USA: 85th 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 · -18%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 18% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — CA field

71 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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