CA · #1695 · $10

California Jackpot

California· Launched Sep 2025· 317 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.73

USA percentile

75th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

3

$1,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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California Jackpot is a $10 scratch-off game from the California (game #1695). It launched in September 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $1M remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.42. Our models put its expected value at 0.73 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.73 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.73 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.38% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 75th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

14 tiers · % remaining
$1M
3/8
38%
$10K
15/42
$5K
38/84
$1K
2.5K/6.1K
$500
4.9K/12.0K
$100
75.8K/184.4K
$50
67.5K/163.9K
$40
68.7K/163.9K
$30
68.4K/164.0K
$25
135.9K/328.1K
$20
341.7K/819.2K
$15
690.1K/1.6M
$10
276.9K/655.1K
$10
279.1K/655.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $50.25M — 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 · 75th
USA: 75th percentileCA: 57th 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 · -19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% 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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