All About the 8s — $5 Texas scratch-off ticket
TX · #2727 · $5

All About the 8s

Texas· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.66

USA percentile

47th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

2

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

86%

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

~53d

P10–P90: 37–74d

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

All About the 8s is a $5 scratch-off game from the Texas (game #2727). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, with roughly 86% of tickets sold, as published by the Texas. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.28. Our models put its expected value at 0.66 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.66 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.66 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.50% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at 86% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Current daily drainage rate is 26.67% of remaining tickets — projected sellout in ~53 days at this pace.
  3. 3.Ranks in the 47th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$100K
2/4
50%
$5K
3/10
$1K
49/252
$500
142/1.5K
$100
2.0K/17.1K
$50
7.9K/68.3K
$30
6.2K/51.3K
$20
16.9K/136.5K
$10
53.3K/393.0K
$5
82.3K/529.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.39M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active TX games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
TX median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 47th
USA: 47th percentileTX: 37th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Jun 9Jun 17Jun 26Jul 18Jul 26Aug 3Aug 13Aug 22Oct 230%25%50%75%100%TODAYsellout ~10-23

Daily drainage

~26.67% / day

Days left (P50)

53 days

P10 / P90 range

37–74 d

EV at P50 sellout

0.66

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · -26%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 26% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — TX field

93 games · break-even highlighted
$0$30$60$1020.000.250.500.91YOU

No other active TX 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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