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Mystery Crossword
California· Launched Jan 2025· 518 days on shelf· scanned yesterday
EV / Dollar
0.62
USA percentile
30th
of 1,870 games
Top prizes left
1
$750,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-06-21
Forecast sellout
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Mystery Crossword is a $10 scratch-off game from the California (game #1659). It launched in January 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $750 remains unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.47. 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.
- 1.2% of $750,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 30th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
12 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $15.13M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 1,870 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 30% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — CA field
58 games · break-even highlightedNo 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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