I CAN'T EVEN 5 — $5 West Virginia scratch-off ticket
WV · #1263 · $5

I CAN'T EVEN 5

West Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

53th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

3

$5,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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I CAN'T EVEN 5 is a $5 scratch-off game from the West Virginia (game #1263). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $5 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.24. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.75% of $5,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 53rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$5K
3/4
75%
$500
44/57
$100
904/1.1K
$50
6.7K/8.5K
$25
11.2K/14.3K
$20
14.1K/17.9K
$10
28.2K/35.8K
$5
45.4K/57.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.53M — 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 WV games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
YOU · 53th
USA: 53th percentileWV: 52th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · -33%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 33% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — WV field

126 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.250.500.89YOU

No 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.

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