CASINO NIGHTS — $5 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1661 · $5

CASINO NIGHTS

New York· Launched Jul 2025· 491 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.76

USA percentile

84th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

1

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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CASINO NIGHTS is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1661). It launched in July 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.44. Our models put its expected value at 0.76 per dollar, returning about $0.76 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York.

THE THESIS

At 0.76 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 30 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.62).

  1. 1.25% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 84th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$500K
1/4
25%
$2K
0/8
$500
20/393
$200
43/1.0K
$100
1.3K/30.6K
$50
2.8K/61.1K
$20
3.2K/61.1K
$15
6.8K/122.2K
$10
33.9K/549.6K
$5
41.6K/549.6K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.51M — 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 · 84th
USA: 84th percentileNY: 95th 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 · +19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% 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

CASINO NIGHTS: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 4 $500,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 89,667 of 1,375,436 prizes (7%) remain; every $2,000 prize has already been claimed.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.78 on average (0.76 per dollar), which ranks 2 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 6 of 131; nationally it sits in the 84th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 926 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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