Break the Bank — $5 District of Columbia scratch-off ticket
DC · #1608 · $5

Break the Bank

District of Columbia· Launched Jan 2025· 607 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.63

USA percentile

34th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

0

$50,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Break the Bank is a $5 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia (game #1608). It launched in January 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $50 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.31. Our models put its expected value at 0.63 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.63 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.63 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 34th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$50K
0/2
0%
$5K
2/2
$500
6/12
$100
73/192
$50
111/315
$30
461/1.2K
$20
4.7K/12.1K
$10
16.7K/42.5K

Total unclaimed prize value: $300,230 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 active games

Where 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.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
DC median0.67 EV/$
YOU · 34th
USA: 34th percentileDC: 33th 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 · +100%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 100% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — DC field

200 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.98YOU

No 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.

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