DC · #1509 · $3

Lucky Letter Crossword

District of Columbia· Launched Mar 2022· 1618 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.67

USA percentile

49th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

2

$25,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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Lucky Letter Crossword is a $3 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia (game #1509). It launched in March 2022. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $25 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.15. Our models put its expected value at 0.67 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.67 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.67 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.67% of $25,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 49th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

16 tiers · % remaining
$25K
2/3
67%
$6K
4/6
$3K
3/6
$2K
2/6
$1K
2/3
$200
7/14
$120
7/14
$100
20/33
$60
71/123
$50
89/152
$30
1.0K/1.8K
$20
5.4K/9.1K
$10
4.4K/7.3K
$6
2.2K/3.6K
$5
13.1K/21.9K
$3
26.9K/43.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $444,109 — 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/$
YOU · 49th
USA: 49th percentileDC: 50th 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

Price vs EV — DC field

200 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.97YOU

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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