CA · #1658 · $5

Tic Tac Toe Bonus

California· Launched Jan 2025· 562 days on shelf· scanned 50d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

62th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

8

$250,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-16

Forecast sellout

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Tic Tac Toe Bonus is a $5 scratch-off game from the California (game #1658). It launched in January 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 8 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.76. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.57% of $250,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 62nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$250K
8/14
57%
$10K
15/28
$1K
721/1.3K
$500
3.1K/5.6K
$100
23.1K/42.1K
$50
42.9K/77.0K
$30
101.1K/182.7K
$20
234.2K/421.8K
$15
283.4K/506.0K
$10
522.1K/927.4K
$6
602.1K/1.1M
$5
723.4K/1.3M

Total unclaimed prize value: $33.30M — 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/$
YOU · 62th
USA: 62th percentileCA: 46th 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

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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