$25,000 EXTRA CA$H
New York· Launched Sep 2025· 428 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.59
USA percentile
18th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$25,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$25,000 EXTRA CA$H is a $2 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1669). It launched in September 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $25,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.80. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 6 of 18 $2 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.59 EV/$, this game ranks 6 of 18 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.59).
- 1.20% of $25,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 18th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.04M — 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
$25,000 EXTRA CA$H: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 10 $25,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 359,466 of 2,012,821 prizes (18%) remain; the thinnest level is $2,000, with 13% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $2 ticket returns about $1.18 on average (0.59 per dollar), which ranks 6 of 18 $2 games on sale in New York, level with the $2 median of 0.59. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 82 of 131; nationally it sits in the 18th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 55,587 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 top prizes.
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.