Lady Luck#1477
District of Columbia· Launched Mar 2021· 2063 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.63
USA percentile
34th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
0
$50,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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Lady Luck is a $5 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1477). It launched in March 2021. 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 3.32. Our models put its expected value at 0.63 per dollar, returning about $0.63 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 38 of 46 $5 games on sale in District of Columbia.
THE THESIS
At 0.63 EV/$, this game ranks 38 of 46 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.70).
- 1.Ranks in the 34th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $163,770 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 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
Lady Luck (#1477): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 0 of the 2 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 15,608 of 110,303 prizes (14%) remain; every $50,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.16 on average (0.63 per dollar), which ranks 38 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 114 of 167; nationally it sits in the 34th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
No claims were recorded on the reported prize levels over the last 30 days.
District of Columbia also sells 2 other issues of Lady Luck: game #1557 and game #1655. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
Figures come from the prize data the District of Columbia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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