NY · #1540 · $20

MILLIONAIRE MAKER

New York· Launched Oct 2022· 1357 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

68th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

3

$1,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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MILLIONAIRE MAKER is a $20 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1540). It launched in October 2022. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $1M remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.91. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.15% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 68th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$1M
3/20
15%
$10K
24/160
$5K
386/2.3K
$2K
758/4.5K
$500
9.0K/56.1K
$200
27.4K/170.8K
$100
88.2K/545.0K
$50
147.1K/871.7K
$40
285.9K/1.7M
$20
370.0K/2.2M

Total unclaimed prize value: $51.68M — 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 · 68th
USA: 68th percentileNY: 91th 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 · -19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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