LOOSE CHANGE — $1 New York scratch-off ticket
NY · #1618 · $1

LOOSE CHANGE

New York· Launched Jul 2024· 776 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.46

USA percentile

1th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

62

$500 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

LOOSE CHANGE is a $1 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1618). It launched in July 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 62 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.70. Our models put its expected value at 0.46 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.46 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.46 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.2% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 1st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$500
62/3.2K
2%
$100
819/45.0K
$40
3.9K/211.7K
$25
12.2K/618.0K
$10
29.1K/1.2M
$5
129.4K/4.5M
$2
324.6K/8.2M
$1
917.4K/18.1M

Total unclaimed prize value: $3.08M — 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 · 1th
USA: 1th percentileNY: 3th 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 · -57%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 57% 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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