NY · #1650 · $30

ULTIMATE CASH

New York· Launched Apr 2025· 447 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

65th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

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$10,000,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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ULTIMATE CASH is a $30 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1650). It launched in April 2025. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.64. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.33% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 65th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining

$500

1/3

33%

$20K

13/25

$8K

20/40

$4K

963/1.9K

$2K

1.6K/3.1K

$400

43.6K/86.4K

$200

93.8K/185.4K

$100

374.9K/741.2K

$75

563.9K/1.1M

$50

1.5M/3.0M

Total unclaimed prize value: $198.66M — 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 · 65th

USA: 65th percentileNY: 89th 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 · -17%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 17% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — NY field

112 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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