SMORE - FROGGY CROSSWORD — $5 West Virginia scratch-off ticket
WV · #1226 · $5

SMORE - FROGGY CROSSWORD

West Virginia· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

68th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2

$50,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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SMORE - FROGGY CROSSWORD is a $5 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1226). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $50,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.12. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 42 $5 games on sale in West Virginia.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 42 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.67).

  1. 1.67% of $50,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 68th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$50K
2/3
67%
$1K
0/5
$500
5/31
$100
278/1.5K
$50
2.3K/12.7K
$25
5.4K/27.4K
$20
6.6K/35.4K
$15
9.5K/51.1K
$10
9.6K/50.9K
$5
27.3K/125.8K

Total unclaimed prize value: $889,690 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 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/$
WV median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 68th
USA: 68th percentileWV: 78th 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 · -43%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 43% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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

SMORE - FROGGY CROSSWORD: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 3 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 61,059 of 304,991 prizes (20%) remain; every $1,000 prize has already been claimed.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.54 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 2 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 28 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, 97 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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