LOOSE CHANGE#1552
New York· Launched Oct 2022· 1467 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.44
USA percentile
1th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
54
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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LOOSE CHANGE is a $1 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1552). It launched in October 2022. As of the most recent daily scan, 54 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.70. Our models put its expected value at 0.44 per dollar, returning about $0.44 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 15 of 15 $1 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.44 EV/$, this game ranks 15 of 15 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.58).
- 1.2% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 1st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
8 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.32M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — NY field
128 games · break-even highlightedNo 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
LOOSE CHANGE (#1552): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 54 of the 3,128 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 8 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,115,415 of 32,785,311 prizes (3%) remain; the thinnest level is $100, with 1% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.44 on average (0.44 per dollar), which ranks 15 of 15 $1 games on sale in New York, below the $1 median of 0.58. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 125 of 128; nationally it sits in the 1th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 1,133 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
New York also sells 2 other issues of LOOSE CHANGE: game #1618 and game #1707. 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.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NY game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.