Hit $500#1684
South Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.73
USA percentile
74th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
13434
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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Hit $500 is a $10 scratch-off game from the South Carolina lottery (game #1684). As of the most recent daily scan, 13434 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the South Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.45. Our models put its expected value at 0.73 per dollar, returning about $0.73 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 12 of 14 $10 games on sale in South Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.73 EV/$, this game ranks 12 of 14 same-price games on sale in South Carolina (median 0.74).
- 1.19% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 74th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
7 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $15.06M — 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 SC 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 tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — SC field
74 games · break-even highlightedNo other active SC 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
Hit $500 (#1684): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 13434 of the 70,213 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 7 prize levels the lottery reports, 463,968 of 2,282,078 prizes (20%) remain; the thinnest level is $200, with 19% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.29 on average (0.73 per dollar), which ranks 12 of 14 $10 games on sale in South Carolina, below the $10 median of 0.74. Among every South Carolina game with a computable value it is 18 of 74; nationally it sits in the 74th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 236,902 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 7,310 top prizes.
Figures come from the prize data the South Carolina 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 SC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.