WIN FOR LIFE#1453
New York· Launched Dec 2020· 2154 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.40
USA percentile
1th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
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$1,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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WIN FOR LIFE is a $2 scratch-off game from the New York lottery (game #1453). It launched in December 2020. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.75. Our models put its expected value at 0.40 per dollar, returning about $0.40 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 15 of 17 $2 games on sale in New York.
THE THESIS
At 0.40 EV/$, this game ranks 15 of 17 same-price games on sale in New York (median 0.59).
- 1.20% of $1 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 1st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
14 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $4.22M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 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 16% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — NY field
128 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 FOR LIFE (#1453): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 1 of the 25 $2,500 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 14 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,397,953 of 12,158,004 prizes (11%) remain; the thinnest level is $200, with 3% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $2 ticket returns about $0.81 on average (0.40 per dollar), which ranks 15 of 17 $2 games on sale in New York, below the $2 median of 0.59. Among every New York game with a computable value it is 126 of 128; nationally it sits in the 1th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 380 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
New York also sells another issue of WIN FOR LIFE: game #1624. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
Figures come from the prize data the New York lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 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.