NY · #1586 · $5

PLUS THE MONEY

New York· Launched Oct 2023· 993 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.91

USA percentile

99th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

2

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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PLUS THE MONEY is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1586). It launched in October 2023. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.57. Our models put its expected value at 0.91 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.91 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.91 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.67% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 99th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$500K
2/3
67%
$2.5K
0/6
$500
171/5.4K
$300
148/5.7K
$100
847/22.9K
$75
389/15.2K
$50
1.1K/30.6K
$30
2.9K/91.3K
$25
7.8K/182.7K
$10
32.0K/730.7K
$5
60.2K/913.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.20M — 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 · 99th
USA: 99th percentileNY: 99th 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 · +36%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 36% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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