NY · #1597 · $2

XTREME BUCKS

New York· Launched Jan 2024· 946 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.56

USA percentile

10th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$25,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

XTREME BUCKS is a $2 scratch-off game from the New York (game #1597). It launched in January 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $25 remains unclaimed, as published by the New York. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.79. Our models put its expected value at 0.56 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.56 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.56 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.10% of $25,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 10th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Read the full case ↓

Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$25K
1/10
10%
$2.5K
1/15
$250
35/731
$100
649/9.0K
$50
2.5K/34.5K
$25
4.5K/69.0K
$20
11.1K/137.9K
$10
30.7K/379.3K
$6
15.8K/207.0K
$5
61.9K/689.7K
$4
66.4K/689.8K
$2
145.7K/1.4M

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.83M — 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 · 10th
USA: 10th percentileNY: 17th 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 · -4%

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.

SIMILAR PLAYS IN NY

If you like this game, look at these

Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal