CA · #1726 · $30

Crossword Xtreme

California· Launched Apr 2026· 63 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

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EV / Dollar

0.80

USA percentile

93th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

3

$7,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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Crossword Xtreme is a $30 scratch-off game from the California (game #1726). It launched in April 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $7M remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.72. Our models put its expected value at 0.80 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.80 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.80 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.75% of $7.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 93rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

15 tiers · % remaining
$7M
3/4
75%
$500K
19/24
$50K
28/31
$10K
60/64
$5K
728/802
$1K
16.5K/19.2K
$500
52.4K/64.0K
$250
65.5K/80.1K
$150
147.3K/180.0K
$100
262.0K/320.1K
$75
523.5K/639.8K
$60
523.4K/639.9K
$50
1.0M/1.3M
$40
1.6M/1.9M
$30
1.6M/1.9M

Total unclaimed prize value: $376.66M — 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 · 93th
USA: 93th percentileCA: 81th 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 · -12%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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