$500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSE — $5 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1682 · $5

$500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSE

New York· Launched Jan 2026· 237 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.58

USA percentile

14th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

0

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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$500,000 YEAR OF THE HORSE is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1682). It launched in January 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.98. Our models put its expected value at 0.58 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.58 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.58 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 14th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$500K
0/3
0%
$3K
6/30
$300
406/1.9K
$100
4.3K/19.1K
$50
7.7K/33.3K
$30
16.6K/72.5K
$20
23.0K/96.8K
$10
160.3K/665.2K
$5
163.1K/628.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $4.33M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 · 14th
USA: 14th percentileNY: 28th 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 · -26%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 26% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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