CA · #1632 · $5

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

California· Launched Jul 2024· 744 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.65

USA percentile

44th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

$250,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner is a $5 scratch-off game from the California (game #1632). It launched in July 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the California. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.77. Our models put its expected value at 0.65 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.65 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.65 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.13% of $250,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 44th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining

$250K

2/15

13%

$10K

7/31

$1K

387/1.4K

$500

1.7K/6.1K

$100

12.5K/46.0K

$50

56.8K/203.5K

$30

54.8K/199.6K

$20

129.0K/460.6K

$15

156.0K/552.5K

$10

289.3K/1.0M

418.0K/1.4M

Total unclaimed prize value: $17.44M — 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 · 44th

USA: 44th percentileCA: 34th 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 · -12%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — CA field

67 games · break-even highlighted

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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