CA · #1705 · $20

set for life

California· Launched Nov 2025· 287 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.85

USA percentile

97th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

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$200,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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set for life is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1705). It launched in November 2025. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.32. Our models put its expected value at 0.85 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.85 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.85 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.83% of $5.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 97th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining

$5M

5/6

83%

$2.5K

2.1K/4.5K

$500

32.8K/72.2K

$250

23.1K/50.7K

$100

92.5K/202.6K

$75

136.8K/300.4K

$50

274.4K/600.5K

$40

551.3K/1.2M

$30

552.6K/1.2M

$20

835.2K/1.8M

Total unclaimed prize value: $141.02M — 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: 93th 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 · -16%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 16% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — CA field

71 games · break-even highlighted

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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