CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN
West Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.61
USA percentile
22th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
16
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN is a $1 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1277). As of the most recent daily scan, 16 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 5.25. Our models put its expected value at 0.61 per dollar, returning about $0.61 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 15 $1 games on sale in West Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.61 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 15 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.56).
- 1.76% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 22nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $944,977 — 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 WV 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 — WV field
132 games · break-even highlightedNo other active WV 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
CASH-BEE-HOT-BEN: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 16 of the 21 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 297,149 of 395,333 prizes (75%) remain.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.61 on average (0.61 per dollar), which ranks 2 of 15 $1 games on sale in West Virginia, above the $1 median of 0.56. Among every West Virginia game with a computable value it is 106 of 127; nationally it sits in the 22th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 19,546 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the West Virginia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a WV game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.