CA · #1666 · $3

LOTERIA™

California· Launched Mar 2025· 491 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

22th

of 1,986 games

Top prizes left

14

$30,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-07-28

Forecast sellout

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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
52/405
$300
602/5.9K
$75
7.1K/75.0K
$50
10.8K/114.4K
$25
19.1K/232.8K
$20
47.5K/473.4K
$15
41.4K/473.2K
$10
163.8K/1.5M
$5
610.5K/5.0M
$3
652.2K/4.7M

Total unclaimed prize value: $10.53M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,986 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: 7th 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 · -26%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 26% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — CA field

67 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$420.000.250.500.98YOU

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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