NY · #1646 · $10

$50 OR $100

New York· Launched Mar 2025· 519 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

53th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1824

$100 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$50 OR $100 is a $10 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1646). It launched in March 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1824 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 8.33. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.1% of $100 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 53rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

2 tiers · % remaining
$100
1.8K/123.7K
1%
$50
12.1K/617.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $788,450 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 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 · 53th
USA: 53th percentileNY: 80th 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 · +167%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 167% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — NY field

121 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.300.601.01break-even · 1.00 EV/$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.

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