30X Crossword
District of Columbia· Launched Feb 2026· 273 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.66
USA percentile
45th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$30,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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30X Crossword is a $3 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1650). It launched in February 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $30,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.69. Our models put its expected value at 0.66 per dollar, returning about $0.66 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 11 of 14 $3 games on sale in District of Columbia.
THE THESIS
At 0.66 EV/$, this game ranks 11 of 14 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.67).
- 1.50% of $30,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 45th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
13 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $285,080 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active DC games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — DC field
200 games · break-even highlightedNo other active DC 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
30X Crossword: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 2 $30,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 39,189 of 64,131 prizes (61%) remain.
At current prize levels a $3 ticket returns about $1.97 on average (0.66 per dollar), which ranks 11 of 14 $3 games on sale in District of Columbia, below the $3 median of 0.67. Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 95 of 169; nationally it sits in the 45th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 1,745 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the District of Columbia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a DC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.