WIN $250
New York· Launched Mar 2024· 974 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.54
USA percentile
6th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
492
$250 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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WIN $250 is a $5 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1604). It launched in March 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 492 top prizes of $250 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.38. Our models put its expected value at 0.54 per dollar, returning about $0.54 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 27 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.54 EV/$, this game ranks 27 of 30 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.62).
- 1.3% of $250 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 6th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
7 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $1.23M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 18% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — NY field
131 games · break-even highlightedNo 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
WIN $250: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 492 of the 18,340 $250 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 7 prize levels the lottery reports, 104,100 of 2,087,332 prizes (5%) remain; the thinnest level is $250, with 3% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $2.69 on average (0.54 per dollar), which ranks 27 of 30 $5 games on sale in New York, below the $5 median of 0.62. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 115 of 131; nationally it sits in the 6th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 109 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.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NY game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.