$500 HOLIDAY BONUS
New York· Launched Nov 2025· 365 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.58
USA percentile
13th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
173
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$500 HOLIDAY BONUS is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1675). It launched in November 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 173 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.93. Our models put its expected value at 0.58 per dollar, returning about $0.58 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 21 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.58 EV/$, this game ranks 21 of 30 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.62).
- 1.11% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 13th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
6 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.28M — 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
$500 HOLIDAY BONUS: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 173 of the 1,570 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 6 prize levels the lottery reports, 200,301 of 1,241,975 prizes (16%) remain; the thinnest level is $500, with 11% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $2.89 on average (0.58 per dollar), which ranks 21 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York, below the $5 median of 0.62. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 94 of 131; nationally it sits in the 13th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 1,386 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.