Washington Commanders — $5 District of Columbia scratch-off ticket
DC · #1631 · $5

Washington Commanders#1631

District of Columbia· Launched Aug 2025· 455 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.79

USA percentile

91th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2

$75,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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Washington Commanders is a $5 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1631). It launched in August 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $75,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.99. Our models put its expected value at 0.79 per dollar, returning about $0.79 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 47 $5 games on sale in District of Columbia.

THE THESIS

At 0.79 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 47 same-price games on sale in District of Columbia (median 0.70).

  1. 1.100% of $75,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 91st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$75K
2/2
100%
$1K
2/6
$500
14/38
$100
230/529
$50
968/2.1K
$25
3.0K/6.7K
$20
4.1K/9.1K
$15
4.2K/9.1K
$10
12.7K/27.4K
$5
17.1K/36.6K

Total unclaimed prize value: $663,810 — 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 · 91th
USA: 91th percentileDC: 91th 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 · +44%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 44% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — DC field

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

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

Washington Commanders (#1631): prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 2 $75,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 42,308 of 91,664 prizes (46%) remain; the thinnest level is $1,000, with 33% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.93 on average (0.79 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 47 $5 games on sale in District of Columbia, above the $5 median of 0.70. Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 16 of 169; nationally it sits in the 91th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 1,128 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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