
New York· Launched Mar 2024· 974 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.50
USA percentile
3th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
518
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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SHOW ME $500 is a $10 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1603). It launched in March 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 518 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.17. Our models put its expected value at 0.50 per dollar, returning about $0.50 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 16 of 17 $10 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.50 EV/$, this game ranks 16 of 17 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.64).
Total unclaimed prize value: $1.69M — 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.
Trailing 7-day claim rate 31% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
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, 518 of the 42,396 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 6 prize levels the lottery reports, 80,377 of 4,326,970 prizes (2%) remain; the thinnest level is $50, with 1% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $5.04 on average (0.50 per dollar), which ranks 16 of 17 $10 games on sale in New York, below the $10 median of 0.64. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 121 of 131; nationally it sits in the 3th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 99 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
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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