Wild Side — $5 Louisiana scratch-off ticket
LA · #1660 · $5

Wild Side

Louisiana· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.66

USA percentile

45th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

1

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Wild Side is a $5 scratch-off game from the Louisiana (game #1660). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $100 remains unclaimed, as published by the Louisiana. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.16. Our models put its expected value at 0.66 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.66 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.66 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.17% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 45th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$100K
1/6
17%
$1K
12/105
$250
45/311
$100
1.1K/6.8K
$50
2.4K/14.6K
$30
2.5K/16.0K
$20
6.5K/36.6K
$15
13.3K/73.3K
$10
20.7K/109.9K
$5
37.8K/183.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.15M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 active games

Where 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.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
LA median0.61 EV/$
YOU · 45th
USA: 45th percentileLA: 76th 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 · +3%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — LA field

200 games · break-even highlighted
$0$6$12$220.000.250.500.95

No 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.

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