KING CROSSWORD
Washington· scanned 3d ago
EV / Dollar
0.55
USA percentile
7th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
0
$30,000 tier
% sold-through
86%
2026-11-01
Forecast sellout
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KING CROSSWORD is a $3 scratch-off game from the Washington lottery (game #1974). As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $30,000 remain unclaimed, with roughly 86% of tickets sold, as published by the Washington lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.91. Our models put its expected value at 0.55 per dollar, returning about $0.55 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 8 of 9 $3 games on sale in Washington.
THE THESIS
At 0.55 EV/$, this game ranks 8 of 9 same-price games on sale in Washington (median 0.63).
- 1.86% of tickets sold through so far.
- 2.Ranks in the 7th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $607,645 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active WA games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionInsufficient historical data for sellout projection.
Claim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 52% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — WA field
81 games · break-even highlightedNo other active WA 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
KING CROSSWORD: prizes, value and pace
As of November 1, 2026, 0 of the 5 $30,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 94,751 of 662,798 prizes (14%) remain; every $30,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $3 ticket returns about $1.64 on average (0.55 per dollar), which ranks 8 of 9 $3 games on sale in Washington, below the $3 median of 0.63. Among every Washington game with a computable value it is 78 of 81; nationally it sits in the 7th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 284 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Washington lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 1, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a WA game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.