WILD RED 7S
West Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.71
USA percentile
69th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
2
$70,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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WILD RED 7S is a $20 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1261). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $70,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.76. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 13 of 17 $20 games on sale in West Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 13 of 17 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.72).
- 1.67% of $70,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 69th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
8 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $3.27M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 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
WILD RED 7S: prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 2 of the 3 $70,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 8 prize levels the lottery reports, 61,085 of 108,790 prizes (56%) remain.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $14.26 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 13 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 24 of 127; nationally it sits in the 69th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 14,276 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 October 26, 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.