Lucky Bucks
Louisiana· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.70
USA percentile
63th
of 2,172 games
Top prizes left
11
$5,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-28
Forecast sellout
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Lucky Bucks is a $1 scratch-off game from the Louisiana lottery (game #1690). As of the most recent daily scan, 11 top prizes of $5,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Louisiana lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.83. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 3 of 46 $1 games on sale in Louisiana.
THE THESIS
At 0.70 EV/$, this game ranks 3 of 46 same-price games on sale in Louisiana (median 0.58).
- 1.85% of $5,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 63rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.10M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,172 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 tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
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
Lucky Bucks: prizes, value and pace
As of October 28, 2026, 11 of the 13 $5,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 621,286 of 785,500 prizes (79%) remain.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.7 on average (0.70 per dollar), which ranks 3 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 21 of 179; nationally it sits in the 63th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 124,768 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 top prizes.
Figures come from the prize data the Louisiana lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 28, 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.