$1,000 Ticket Game
Louisiana· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.61
USA percentile
23th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
13
$1,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$1,000 Ticket Game is a $1 scratch-off game from the Louisiana lottery (game #1516). As of the most recent daily scan, 13 top prizes of $1,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Louisiana lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.82. Our models put its expected value at 0.61 per dollar, returning about $0.61 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 18 of 46 $1 games on sale in Louisiana.
THE THESIS
At 0.61 EV/$, this game ranks 18 of 46 same-price games on sale in Louisiana (median 0.58).
- 1.15% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 23rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $177,467 — 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 LA 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 — LA field
200 games · break-even highlightedNo other active LA 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
$1,000 Ticket Game: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 13 of the 85 $1,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 60,474 of 481,818 prizes (13%) remain; the thinnest level is $20, with 10% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.61 on average (0.61 per dollar), which ranks 18 of 46 $1 games on sale in Louisiana, above the $1 median of 0.58. Among every Louisiana game with a computable value it is 98 of 179; nationally it sits in the 23th 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.
Figures come from the prize data the Louisiana 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 LA game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.