NY · #1639 · $10

SET FOR LIFE

New York· Launched Jan 2025· 573 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.66

USA percentile

46th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

$5,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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SET FOR LIFE is a $10 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1639). It launched in January 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 89 top prizes of $5 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.95. Our models put its expected value at 0.66 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.66 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.66 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.33% of $5 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 46th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining

2/6

33%

$50K

4/20

$5K

89/465

$1K

130/601

$500

6.9K/42.1K

$100

84.4K/514.9K

$50

329.4K/2.0M

$25

160.2K/962.2K

$20

553.3K/3.3M

$15

161.7K/962.2K

$10

803.0K/4.4M

Total unclaimed prize value: $54.67M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 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 · 46th

USA: 46th percentileNY: 75th 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 · +6%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NY field

121 games · break-even highlighted

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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