
New York· Launched Jul 2022· 1565 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.36
USA percentile
0th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
0
$20,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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CASHWORD DOUBLER is a $2 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1531). It launched in July 2022. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $20,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 5.09. Our models put its expected value at 0.36 per dollar, returning about $0.36 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 17 of 17 $2 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.36 EV/$, this game ranks 17 of 17 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.59).
Total unclaimed prize value: $4.24M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
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.
Trailing 7-day claim rate 77% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
No other active NY games currently clear break-even.
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
As of October 26, 2026, 0 of the 30 $20,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,160,858 of 16,099,110 prizes (7%) remain; every $20,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $2 ticket returns about $0.72 on average (0.36 per dollar), which ranks 17 of 17 $2 games on sale in New York, below the $2 median of 0.59. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 128 of 128; nationally it sits in the 0th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 130 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
New York also sells 2 other issues of CASHWORD DOUBLER: game #1619 and game #1670. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
Figures come from the prize data the New York lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
SIMILAR PLAYS IN NY
Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal
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