Emerald Green 8s
District of Columbia· Launched Dec 2024· 700 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.61
USA percentile
24th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
0
$50,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Emerald Green 8s is a $5 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1607). It launched in December 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $50,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.06. Our models put its expected value at 0.61 per dollar, returning about $0.61 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 43 of 46 $5 games on sale in District of Columbia.
THE THESIS
At 0.61 EV/$, this game ranks 43 of 46 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.70).
- 1.Ranks in the 24th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $254,535 — 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 tiersPrice 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
Emerald Green 8s: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 0 of the 2 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 20,510 of 59,861 prizes (34%) remain; every $50,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.06 on average (0.61 per dollar), which ranks 43 of 46 $5 games on sale in District of Columbia, below the $5 median of 0.70. Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 136 of 169; nationally it sits in the 24th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 2 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.