Set for Life#1736
California· Launched Jul 2026· 91 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.69
USA percentile
58th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
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$4,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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Set for Life is a $2 scratch-off game from the California lottery (game #1736). It launched in July 2026. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.44. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels, the best of 7 $2 games on sale in California.
THE THESIS
At 0.69 EV/$, this game ranks 1 of 7 same-price games on sale in California (median 0.65).
- 1.50% of $1.2M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 58th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
13 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $5.87M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 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 19% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — CA field
80 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Set for Life (#1736): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 1 of the 2 $1,200,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 961,039 of 2,704,053 prizes (36%) remain; the thinnest level is $75, with 30% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $2 ticket returns about $1.38 on average (0.69 per dollar), which ranks 1 of 7 $2 games on sale in California, above the $2 median of 0.65. Among every California game with a computable value it is 46 of 80; nationally it sits in the 58th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 368,285 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 1 top prize.
California also sells 2 other issues of Set for Life: game #1748 ($10) and game #1705 ($20). Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
Figures come from the prize data the California lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a CA game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.