
New York· Launched Mar 2025· 593 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.49
USA percentile
2th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$7,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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LUCKY 7'S is a $1 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1653). It launched in March 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $7,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.96. Our models put its expected value at 0.49 per dollar, returning about $0.49 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 13 of 15 $1 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.49 EV/$, this game ranks 13 of 15 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.57).
Total unclaimed prize value: $1.37M — 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.
Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
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, 2 of the 20 $7,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 564,878 of 5,127,883 prizes (11%) remain; the thinnest level is $80, with 6% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.49 on average (0.49 per dollar), which ranks 13 of 15 $1 games on sale in New York, below the $1 median of 0.57. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 125 of 131; nationally it sits in the 2th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 8,457 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
New York also sells another issue of LUCKY 7'S: game #1699. 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 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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