New Jersey· Launched Apr 2025· 565 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.69
USA percentile
59th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
0
$600,000 tier
% sold-through
66%
2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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Colossal Crossword is a $30 scratch-off game from the New Jersey lottery (game #1921). It launched in April 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $600,000 remain unclaimed, with roughly 66% of tickets sold, as published by the New Jersey lottery. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 10 of 11 $30 games on sale in New Jersey.
THE THESIS
At 0.69 EV/$, this game ranks 10 of 11 same-price games on sale in New Jersey (median 0.74).
Total unclaimed prize value: $13.15M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active NJ games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.
Insufficient historical data for sellout projection.
Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
No other active NJ games currently clear break-even.
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
As of October 26, 2026, 0 of the 3 $600,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 186,305 of 543,495 prizes (34%) remain; every $600,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $30 ticket returns about $20.74 on average (0.69 per dollar), which ranks 10 of 11 $30 games on sale in New Jersey, below the $30 median of 0.74. Among every New Jersey game with a computable value it is 52 of 142; nationally it sits in the 59th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 12 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the New Jersey lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
SIMILAR PLAYS IN NJ
Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal
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