DC · #1629 · $20

Fortune

District of Columbia· Launched Jul 2025· 399 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.82

USA percentile

96th

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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Fortune is a $20 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia (game #1629). It launched in July 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.16. Our models put its expected value at 0.82 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.82 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.82 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.100% of $250,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 96th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining

$250K

2/2

100%

$25K

1/2

$10K

3/3

$1K

14/15

$500

441/640

$250

1.0K/1.5K

$100

3.2K/4.7K

$50

3.7K/5.4K

$30

33.8K/49.0K

$20

11.3K/16.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.79M — 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 DC games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$

DC median0.67 EV/$

YOU · 96th

USA: 96th percentileDC: 96th 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 · +19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — DC field

200 games · break-even highlighted

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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