CA · #1678 · $20

Show Me $5,000,000!

California· Launched May 2025· 443 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.78

USA percentile

90th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

2

$5,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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Show Me $5,000,000! is a $20 scratch-off game from the California (game #1678). It launched in May 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $5M remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.32. 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. 1.40% of $5.0M 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

10 tiers · % remaining
$5M
2/5
40%
$2.5K
1.5K/3.8K
$500
23.0K/60.8K
$250
16.2K/42.9K
$100
64.6K/170.8K
$75
95.9K/253.2K
$50
192.4K/506.4K
$40
384.8K/1.0M
$30
387.1K/1.0M
$20
586.3K/1.5M

Total unclaimed prize value: $91.23M — 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: 79th 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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