Wham! — $1 New Hampshire scratch-off ticket
NH · #1618 · $1

Wham!

New Hampshire· Launched Sep 2025· 401 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

21th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

22

$250 tier

% sold-through

43%

2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

~1212d

P10–P90: 848–1697d

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

Wham! is a $1 scratch-off game from the New Hampshire lottery (game #1618). It launched in September 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 22 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, with roughly 43% of tickets sold, as published by the New Hampshire lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.72. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 9 $1 games on sale in New Hampshire.

THE THESIS

At 0.60 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 9 same-price games on sale in New Hampshire (median 0.60).

  1. 1.46% of $250 prizes still unclaimed at 43% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Current daily drainage rate is 4.67% of remaining tickets — projected sellout in ~1212 days at this pace.
  3. 3.Ranks in the 21st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$250
22/48
46%
$100
187/358
$50
1.1K/2.1K
$20
1.5K/2.9K
$15
1.1K/2.0K
$10
5.2K/9.7K
$5
21.3K/38.7K
$3
8.1K/14.5K
$2
49.1K/87.1K
$1
86.2K/149.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $492,402 — 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 NH games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
NH median0.63 EV/$
YOU · 21th
USA: 21th percentileNH: 35th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Aug 16Aug 26Sep 5Sep 15Sep 25Oct 5Oct 15Oct 25Feb 280%25%50%75%100%TODAYsellout ~02-28

Daily drainage

~4.67% / day

Days left (P50)

1212 days

P10 / P90 range

848–1697 d

EV at P50 sellout

0.60

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · +12%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NH field

75 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.300.601.02break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

No other active NH 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

Wham!: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 22 of the 48 $250 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 173,740 of 307,135 prizes (57%) remain; the thinnest level is $250, with 46% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.6 on average (0.60 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 9 $1 games on sale in New Hampshire, level with the $1 median of 0.60. Among every New Hampshire game with a computable value it is 45 of 69; nationally it sits in the 21th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 4,067 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 1 top prize; at the current pace the remaining tickets would sell out in about 1212 days (likely range 848–1697).

Figures come from the prize data the New Hampshire 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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