LOTERIA™ — $3 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1666 · $3

LOTERIA™

California· Launched Mar 2025· 525 days on shelf· scanned 14d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

22th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

14

$30,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-17

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.

LOTERIA™ is a $3 scratch-off game from the California (game #1666). It launched in March 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 14 top prizes of $30 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.74. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.60 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.18% of $30,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 22nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$30K
14/78
18%
$3K
50/405
$300
597/5.9K
$75
7.0K/75.0K
$50
10.7K/114.4K
$25
18.8K/232.8K
$20
46.8K/473.4K
$15
40.7K/473.2K
$10
161.2K/1.5M
$5
600.9K/5.0M
$3
642.6K/4.7M

Total unclaimed prize value: $10.37M — 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/$
CA median0.71 EV/$
YOU · 22th
USA: 22th percentileCA: 8th 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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