NY · #1600 · $5

$500,000 BLAST

New York· Launched Feb 2024· 911 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

62th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$500,000 BLAST is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1600). It launched in February 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500 remains unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.02. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.33% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 62nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$500K
1/3
33%
$2.5K
1/12
$500
164/2.9K
$100
1.8K/34.0K
$50
3.0K/45.7K
$30
4.7K/91.4K
$25
6.0K/91.4K
$20
5.6K/91.4K
$10
68.6K/1.0M
$5
82.2K/914.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.41M — 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 · 62th
USA: 62th percentileNY: 85th 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 · -7%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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