CELEBRATE 40 20X
West Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
71th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$100,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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CELEBRATE 40 20X is a $20 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1245). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $100,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.75. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 8 of 17 $20 games on sale in West Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 8 of 17 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.72).
- 1.33% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 71st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $2.22M — 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
CELEBRATE 40 20X: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 3 $100,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 41,196 of 148,473 prizes (28%) remain; the thinnest level is $10,000, with 20% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $14.36 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 8 of 17 $20 games on sale in West Virginia, level with the $20 median of 0.72. Among every West Virginia game with a computable value it is 16 of 127; nationally it sits in the 71th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 8,880 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.