Ultimate Blowout
District of Columbia· Launched Sep 2025· 427 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.74
USA percentile
77th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
155
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Ultimate Blowout is a $10 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1636). It launched in September 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 155 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 8.61. Our models put its expected value at 0.74 per dollar, returning about $0.74 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 10 of 21 $10 games on sale in District of Columbia.
THE THESIS
At 0.74 EV/$, this game ranks 10 of 21 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.73).
- 1.34% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 77th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
3 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $613,700 — 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 tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price 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
Ultimate Blowout: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 155 of the 454 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 3 prize levels the lottery reports, 9,693 of 28,414 prizes (34%) remain; the thinnest level is $100, with 34% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.35 on average (0.74 per dollar), which ranks 10 of 21 $10 games on sale in District of Columbia, level with the $10 median of 0.73. Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 39 of 169; nationally it sits in the 77th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 724 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 6 top prizes.
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.