CA · #1555 · $1

The Lucky Spot!

California· Launched Feb 2023· 1262 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.59

USA percentile

17th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

27

$1,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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The Lucky Spot! is a $1 scratch-off game from the California (game #1555). It launched in February 2023. As of the most recent daily scan, 27 top prizes of $1 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.78. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.59 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.22% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 17th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$1K
27/125
22%
$100
664/3.2K
$50
1.7K/8.3K
$40
2.1K/10.3K
$20
28.9K/128.4K
$15
28.6K/128.4K
$10
60.0K/256.7K
$5
126.5K/513.5K
$3
201.7K/770.2K
$2
488.1K/1.8M
$1
796.9K/2.8M

Total unclaimed prize value: $4.88M — 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 · 17th
USA: 17th percentileCA: 4th 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 · -30%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 30% 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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