NY · #1672 · $5

LUCKY 13

New York· Launched Oct 2025· 258 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.76

USA percentile

84th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

1

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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LUCKY 13 is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1672). It launched in October 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500 remains unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.11. Our models put its expected value at 0.76 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.76 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.76 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.33% 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.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$500K
1/3
33%
$2K
1/10
$300
17/596
$150
279/9.5K
$90
1.1K/29.3K
$30
3.0K/73.7K
$20
2.0K/47.1K
$15
4.5K/94.2K
$10
33.6K/588.8K
$5
45.7K/588.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.41M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 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 · -14%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NY field

112 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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