CA · #1714 · $20

Red Carpet Riches

California· Launched Jan 2026· 198 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.78

USA percentile

90th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

6

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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Red Carpet Riches is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1714). It launched in January 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 6 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 0.78 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.78 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.78 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.50% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 90th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

13 tiers · % remaining
$2M
6/12
50%
$25K
18/24
$10K
12/24
$5K
63/124
$2K
1.9K/3.7K
$1K
5.1K/9.7K
$500
12.8K/25.5K
$250
18.2K/36.4K
$200
39.3K/78.8K
$100
181.9K/364.0K
$50
339.5K/679.2K
$25
783.1K/1.6M
$20
982.6K/1.9M

Total unclaimed prize value: $114.97M — 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 · 90th
USA: 90th percentileCA: 78th 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 · -19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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