Fortune — $20 District of Columbia scratch-off ticket
DC · #1629 · $20

Fortune

District of Columbia· Launched Jul 2025· 490 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.83

USA percentile

97th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2

$250,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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Fortune is a $20 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1629). It launched in July 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $250,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.16. Our models put its expected value at 0.83 per dollar, returning about $0.83 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 8 $20 games on sale in District of Columbia.

THE THESIS

At 0.83 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 8 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.79).

  1. 1.100% of $250,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 97th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$250K
2/2
100%
$25K
1/2
$10K
3/3
$1K
13/15
$500
419/640
$250
945/1.5K
$100
3.1K/4.7K
$50
3.5K/5.4K
$30
32.0K/49.0K
$20
10.7K/16.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.67M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 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 · 97th
USA: 97th percentileDC: 98th 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 · -15%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — DC field

200 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.99YOU

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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

Fortune: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 2 $250,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 50,762 of 77,480 prizes (66%) remain.

At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $16.67 on average (0.83 per dollar), which ranks 2 of 8 $20 games on sale in District of Columbia, above the $20 median of 0.79. Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 4 of 169; nationally it sits in the 97th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 839 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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