BINGO TIMES 20 — $5 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1689 · $5

BINGO TIMES 20

New York· Launched Mar 2026· 246 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.65

USA percentile

40th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2

$300,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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BINGO TIMES 20 is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1689). It launched in March 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $300,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.27. Our models put its expected value at 0.65 per dollar, returning about $0.65 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 9 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York.

THE THESIS

At 0.65 EV/$, this game ranks 9 of 30 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.62).

  1. 1.40% of $300,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 40th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

16 tiers · % remaining
$300K
2/5
40%
$50K
3/8
$10K
10/24
$5K
12/32
$2.5K
34/82
$500
2.3K/5.1K
$200
1.4K/3.2K
$100
11.2K/25.4K
$60
8.2K/19.1K
$50
27.7K/63.5K
$30
43.3K/101.5K
$25
98.9K/228.3K
$20
100.9K/228.2K
$15
64.9K/152.2K
$10
665.9K/1.5M
$5
533.4K/1.2M

Total unclaimed prize value: $21.47M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 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 · 40th
USA: 40th percentileNY: 73th 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 · +22%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 22% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — NY field

131 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.300.601.06break-even · 1.00 EV/$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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

BINGO TIMES 20: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 5 $300,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 16 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,557,833 of 3,566,837 prizes (44%) remain; the thinnest level is $50,000, with 38% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.23 on average (0.65 per dollar), which ranks 9 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York, above the $5 median of 0.62. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 36 of 131; nationally it sits in the 40th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 180,075 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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