$10,000,000 CASH — $30 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1606 · $30

$10,000,000 CASH

New York· Launched Apr 2024· 946 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

67th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

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$10,000,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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

$10,000,000 CASH is a $30 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1606). It launched in April 2024. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.65. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 10 $30 games on sale in New York.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 10 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.70).

  1. 1.33% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 67th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$500
1/3
33%
$25K
9/25
$10K
13/40
$5K
493/1.8K
$2K
819/3.1K
$500
17.5K/66.2K
$200
48.1K/182.9K
$100
193.5K/731.8K
$75
293.5K/1.1M
$50
784.8K/2.9M

Total unclaimed prize value: $103.41M — 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 NY games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
NY median0.62 EV/$
YOU · 67th
USA: 67th percentileNY: 92th 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 · +21%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 21% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — NY field

131 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.300.601.06break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

No 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

$10,000,000 CASH: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 9 of the 25 $25,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,338,627 of 5,010,332 prizes (27%) remain; the thinnest level is $200, with 26% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $30 ticket returns about $21.17 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 10 $30 games on sale in New York, level with the $30 median of 0.70. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 11 of 131; nationally it sits in the 67th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 61,568 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.

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