CA · #1682 · $20

Instant Prize Crossword

California· Launched Jun 2025· 408 days on shelf· scanned 50d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.73

USA percentile

77th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-16

Forecast sellout

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Instant Prize Crossword is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1682). It launched in June 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.10. 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.Ranks in the 77th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

13 tiers · % remaining
$2M
0/15
0%
$25K
4/32
$10K
1/32
$5K
18/159
$2K
483/4.6K
$1K
804/12.4K
$500
1.0K/32.3K
$250
1.5K/46.3K
$200
3.2K/100.5K
$100
14.4K/458.5K
$50
29.3K/858.0K
$25
69.9K/2.0M
$20
104.0K/2.5M

Total unclaimed prize value: $10.24M — 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 · 77th
USA: 77th percentileCA: 58th 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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