Royal Jackpot — $40 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1718 · $40

Royal Jackpot

California· Launched Feb 2026· 196 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.83

USA percentile

97th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

3

$15,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Royal Jackpot is a $40 scratch-off game from the California (game #1718). It launched in February 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $15M remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.43. Our models put its expected value at 0.83 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.83 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.83 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.60% of $15.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 97th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$15M
3/5
60%
$1M
4/5
$40K
394/655
$10K
478/769
$1K
9.5K/15.3K
$400
112.8K/191.5K
$200
37.5K/63.8K
$100
247.7K/420.5K
$50
1.2M/2.0M
$40
1.2M/2.0M
$40
905.2K/1.5M

Total unclaimed prize value: $301.11M — 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 · 97th
USA: 97th percentileCA: 92th 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 · -5%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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