$1,000,000 BONUS CASHWORD
New York· Launched Jul 2025· 483 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.50
USA percentile
2th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
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$1,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$1,000,000 BONUS CASHWORD is a $10 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1666). It launched in July 2025. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.32. Our models put its expected value at 0.50 per dollar, returning about $0.50 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 17 of 17 $10 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.50 EV/$, this game ranks 17 of 17 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.64).
- 1.Ranks in the 2nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.32M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active NY 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 — NY field
131 games · break-even highlightedNo other active NY 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
$1,000,000 BONUS CASHWORD: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 94 $5,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 108,247 of 4,241,798 prizes (3%) remain; every $50 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $4.97 on average (0.50 per dollar), which ranks 17 of 17 $10 games on sale in New York, below the $10 median of 0.64. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 122 of 131; nationally it sits in the 2th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 2,767 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the New York lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
SIMILAR PLAYS IN NY
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NY game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.