NY · #1453 · $2

WIN FOR LIFE

New York· Launched Dec 2020· 2064 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.40

USA percentile

1th

of 1,986 games

Top prizes left

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$1,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-07-28

Forecast sellout

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WIN FOR LIFE is a $2 scratch-off game from the New York (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, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.40 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.40 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

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.

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Prize ladder

14 tiers · % remaining

1/5

20%

$2.5K

1/25

$200

7/249

$100

231/4.8K

$40

8.4K/182.4K

$20

14.2K/364.8K

$15

6.7K/182.4K

$12

7.2K/182.4K

$10

31.3K/663.1K

12.4K/267.9K

76.1K/1.3M

63.8K/1.1M

410.4K/5.1M

768.6K/2.7M

Total unclaimed prize value: $4.23M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,986 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 · 1th

USA: 1th percentileNY: 2th 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 · +19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — NY field

118 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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