Cowboys — $5 Texas scratch-off ticket
TX · #2754 · $5

Cowboys

Texas· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.59

USA percentile

18th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

5%

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

~205d

P10–P90: 144–287d

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Cowboys is a $5 scratch-off game from the Texas (game #2754). Roughly 5% of this game's tickets have sold through to date. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.80. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.59 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Current daily drainage rate is 46.17% of remaining tickets — projected sellout in ~205 days at this pace.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 18th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$100K
0/4
0%
$5K
11/12
$500
264/280
$100
6.2K/6.6K
$50
64.8K/68.8K
$20
373.8K/396.4K
$15
373.9K/396.3K
$10
478.3K/506.4K
$5
1.2M/1.2M

Total unclaimed prize value: $27.75M — 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 · 18th
USA: 18th percentileTX: 9th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Aug 6Aug 10Aug 13Aug 16Aug 19Aug 22Aug 25Aug 28Mar 240%25%50%75%100%TODAYsellout ~03-24

Daily drainage

~46.17% / day

Days left (P50)

205 days

P10 / P90 range

144–287 d

EV at P50 sellout

0.59

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · +39%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 39% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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