Color Blast Crossword
Louisiana· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
73th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
5
$100,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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Color Blast Crossword is a $5 scratch-off game from the Louisiana lottery (game #1697). As of the most recent daily scan, 5 top prizes of $100,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Louisiana lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.37. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 7 of 32 $5 games on sale in Louisiana.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 7 of 32 same-price games on sale in Louisiana (median 0.65).
- 1.100% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 73rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
12 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $5.06M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,154 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 tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 248% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
Price 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
Color Blast Crossword: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 5 of the 5 $100,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 319,860 of 332,188 prizes (96%) remain.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.62 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 7 of 32 $5 games on sale in Louisiana, above the $5 median of 0.65. Among every Louisiana game with a computable value it is 11 of 179; nationally it sits in the 73th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 13 days, 12,328 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Louisiana lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 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.