
New York· Launched Jul 2025· 491 days on shelf· scanned today
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).
Total unclaimed prize value: $1.51M — 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 19% 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 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.
SIMILAR PLAYS IN NY
Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal
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