CA · #1685 · $5

Feeling Lucky

California· Launched Jul 2025· 380 days on shelf· scanned 51d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.62

USA percentile

30th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$250,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-15

Forecast sellout

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

Feeling Lucky is a $5 scratch-off game from the California (game #1685). It launched in July 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.77. Our models put its expected value at 0.62 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.62 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.62 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 30th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$250K
0/12
0%
$10K
7/25
$1K
220/1.1K
$500
955/4.9K
$100
7.4K/36.6K
$50
32.9K/161.5K
$30
32.3K/158.3K
$20
76.7K/365.7K
$15
94.1K/438.8K
$10
173.8K/804.6K
$5
260.0K/1.1M

Total unclaimed prize value: $10.11M — 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 · 30th
USA: 30th percentileCA: 16th 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

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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