NY · #1604 · $5

WIN $250

New York· Launched Mar 2024· 883 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.54

USA percentile

7th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

494

$250 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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WIN $250 is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1604). It launched in March 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 494 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.38. Our models put its expected value at 0.54 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.54 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.54 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.3% of $250 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 7th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

7 tiers · % remaining
$250
494/18.3K
3%
$100
1.2K/36.6K
$50
3.4K/91.3K
$20
4.0K/114.2K
$15
5.4K/137.1K
$10
41.9K/913.4K
$5
48.2K/776.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.23M — 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 · 7th
USA: 7th percentileNY: 11th 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 · +5%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NY field

121 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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