MOTHMAN FORTUNE-MERRY LITTLE CRYPTIDS — $5 West Virginia scratch-off ticket
WV · #1269 · $5

MOTHMAN FORTUNE-MERRY LITTLE CRYPTIDS

West Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

55th

of 2,154 games

Top prizes left

3

$2,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-25

Forecast sellout

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MOTHMAN FORTUNE-MERRY LITTLE CRYPTIDS is a $5 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1269). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $2,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.79. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 11 of 42 $5 games on sale in West Virginia.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game ranks 11 of 42 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.67).

  1. 1.75% of $2,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 55th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$2K
3/4
75%
$500
54/84
$100
487/740
$50
4.6K/7.1K
$20
21.0K/32.1K
$15
7.0K/10.6K
$10
23.4K/35.6K
$5
43.1K/64.1K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.28M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,154 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 · 55th
USA: 55th percentileWV: 54th 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 · -10%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — WV field

132 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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

MOTHMAN FORTUNE-MERRY LITTLE CRYPTIDS: prizes, value and pace

As of October 25, 2026, 3 of the 4 $2,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 8 prize levels the lottery reports, 99,594 of 150,349 prizes (66%) remain.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.4 on average (0.68 per dollar), which ranks 11 of 42 $5 games on sale in West Virginia, above the $5 median of 0.67. Among every West Virginia game with a computable value it is 58 of 127; nationally it sits in the 55th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 22,405 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 1 top prize.

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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