$2,000,000 CASHWORD
New York· Launched May 2024· 911 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.57
USA percentile
12th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
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$2,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$2,000,000 CASHWORD is a $20 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1609). It launched in May 2024. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.82. Our models put its expected value at 0.57 per dollar, returning about $0.57 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 14 of 14 $20 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.57 EV/$, this game ranks 14 of 14 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.68).
- 1.Ranks in the 12th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $12.26M — 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 tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 50% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
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
$2,000,000 CASHWORD: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 60 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 279,594 of 4,784,874 prizes (6%) remain; every $100 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $11.47 on average (0.57 per dollar), which ranks 14 of 14 $20 games on sale in New York, below the $20 median of 0.68. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 96 of 131; nationally it sits in the 12th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 313 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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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NY game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.