CA · #1706 · $1

Year of the Horse

California· Launched Dec 2025· 233 days on shelf· scanned 50d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.58

USA percentile

15th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

3

$888 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-16

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Year of the Horse is a $1 scratch-off game from the California (game #1706). It launched in December 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 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 0.58 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.58 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.58 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.7% of $888 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 15th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$888
3/41
7%
$100
162/1.2K
$88
365/2.6K
$30
3.3K/20.5K
$18
14.4K/81.8K
$10
29.9K/163.7K
$8
62.8K/327.3K
$4
87.5K/409.3K
$2
285.4K/1.2M
$1
502.3K/2.0M

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.63M — 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 · 15th
USA: 15th percentileCA: 1th 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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