Full of 500's — $5 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1742 · $5

Full of 500's

California· Launched Aug 2026· 7 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

63th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

24948

$500 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Full of 500's is a $5 scratch-off game from the California (game #1742). It launched in August 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 24948 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.43. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.95% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 63rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$500
24.9K/26.3K
95%
$100
42.8K/45.1K
$50
79.8K/84.1K
$30
128.2K/134.9K
$20
267.1K/281.0K
$15
428.0K/450.0K
$10
1.8M/1.9M
$5
1.1M/1.1M

Total unclaimed prize value: $59.94M — 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/$
YOU · 63th
USA: 63th percentileCA: 46th 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

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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