TX · #2697 · $3

Holiday Word Blast

Texas· scanned 74d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.62

USA percentile

30th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$50,000 tier

% sold-through

71%

2026-05-23

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.

Holiday Word Blast is a $3 scratch-off game from the Texas (game #2697). As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $50 remain unclaimed, with roughly 71% of tickets sold, as published by the Texas. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.15. Our models put its expected value at 0.62 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.62 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.62 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.71% sold-through with sufficient prize coverage remaining across all tiers.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 30th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$50K
0/5
0%
$5K
17/67
$500
675/2.6K
$100
2.9K/11.0K
$50
5.4K/20.9K
$20
15.6K/58.3K
$10
67.2K/242.9K
$5
153.6K/542.7K
$3
172.5K/582.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $3.25M — 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 TX games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
TX median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 30th
USA: 30th percentileTX: 13th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
May 22May 230%25%50%75%100%

Insufficient historical data for sellout projection.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d

Price vs EV — TX field

89 games · break-even highlighted
$0$30$60$1020.000.250.500.90YOU

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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