WILD SIDE - POWER $500
West Virginia· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.67
USA percentile
49th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
147
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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WILD SIDE - POWER $500 is a $5 scratch-off game from the West Virginia lottery (game #1265). As of the most recent daily scan, 147 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the West Virginia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.75. Our models put its expected value at 0.67 per dollar, returning about $0.67 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 27 of 42 $5 games on sale in West Virginia.
THE THESIS
At 0.67 EV/$, this game ranks 27 of 42 same-price games on sale in West Virginia (median 0.67).
- 1.29% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 49th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
7 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $697,385 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 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
WILD SIDE - POWER $500: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 147 of the 508 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 7 prize levels the lottery reports, 44,061 of 154,367 prizes (29%) remain; the thinnest level is $50, with 27% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.33 on average (0.67 per dollar), which ranks 27 of 42 $5 games on sale in West Virginia, below the $5 median of 0.67. Among every West Virginia game with a computable value it is 75 of 127; nationally it sits in the 49th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 477 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 November 4, 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.