LUCKY WITCH-LUCKY ELF
West Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.71
USA percentile
68th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
4
$5,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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LUCKY WITCH-LUCKY ELF is a $10 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1268). As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $5,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 5.36. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 9 of 27 $10 games on sale in West Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 9 of 27 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.70).
- 1.50% of $5,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 68th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
7 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $1.71M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,154 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 tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 23% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
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
LUCKY WITCH-LUCKY ELF: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 4 of the 8 $5,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 7 prize levels the lottery reports, 45,113 of 75,086 prizes (60%) remain.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.07 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 9 of 27 $10 games on sale in West Virginia, level with the $10 median of 0.70. Among every West Virginia game with a computable value it is 29 of 127; nationally it sits in the 68th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 12,879 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 top prizes.
Figures come from the prize data the West Virginia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 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.