Straight 8's — $1 California scratch-off ticket
CA · #1674 · $1

Straight 8's

California· Launched May 2025· 469 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.62

USA percentile

27th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

23

$888 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Straight 8's is a $1 scratch-off game from the California (game #1674). It launched in May 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 23 top prizes of $888 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.59. Our models put its expected value at 0.62 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.62 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.62 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.26% of $888 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 27th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$888
23/90
26%
$100
635/2.8K
$88
1.3K/5.9K
$30
10.6K/46.2K
$18
43.7K/184.9K
$10
89.4K/369.9K
$8
182.2K/739.7K
$4
237.6K/924.7K
$2
748.8K/2.8M
$1
1.3M/4.6M

Total unclaimed prize value: $7.41M — 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 · 27th
USA: 27th percentileCA: 13th 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 · -28%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 28% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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