$5,000,000 CASH ROYALE — $20 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1579 · $20

$5,000,000 CASH ROYALE

New York· Launched Jul 2023· 1130 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.69

USA percentile

56th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

$5,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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$5,000,000 CASH ROYALE is a $20 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1579). It launched in July 2023. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.90. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.69 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.25% of $250 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 56th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$250
1/4
25%
$10K
21/77
$5K
472/1.8K
$2.5K
982/3.8K
$500
13.0K/51.0K
$200
38.6K/151.4K
$100
116.7K/453.9K
$50
190.8K/726.2K
$40
377.1K/1.5M
$20
481.6K/1.8M

Total unclaimed prize value: $65.17M — 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 · 56th
USA: 56th percentileNY: 82th 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 · -36%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 36% 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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