WIN EITHER $100 OR $200!
New York· Launched Jun 2025· 519 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
71th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
8366
$200 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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WIN EITHER $100 OR $200! is a $20 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1657). It launched in June 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 8366 top prizes of $200 remain unclaimed, as published by the New York lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 8.00. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 14 $20 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 14 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.68).
- 1.5% of $200 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 71st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
2 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $6.50M — 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 22% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
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 EITHER $100 OR $200!: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 8366 of the 180,436 $200 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 2 prize levels the lottery reports, 56,678 of 1,127,856 prizes (5%) remain.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $14.35 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 2 of 14 $20 games on sale in New York, above the $20 median of 0.68. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 8 of 131; nationally it sits in the 71th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 28,327 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 4,601 top prizes.
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.