West Virginia · Game #1264

SHARK-CLUCK-WILD-HOPPY

$1per ticket

Sale status unconfirmed · Collected Oct 15, 2026, 9:35 AM EDT

Latest lottery dataData updated Oct 15, 2026

Game summary

What to know about this ticket

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Our estimate

Average payout

$0.60

Across lots of tickets, we estimate an average of $0.60 back for each $1 ticket.

$0.60 back per $1 spent · -$0.40 after the ticket cost

<$0.01 highervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.
Our estimate

Payout without the jackpot

$0.60

For a $1 ticket, the estimated average payout is $0.60 when the $500 top prize is treated as $0.

Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: -40.1%

<$0.01 highervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.
Our estimate

Chance of Any Prize

19.0%

About 1 in 5.25 remaining tickets

Includes the top prize and prizes that only return your ticket cost. A prize does not necessarily mean a profit.

<0.01 points highervs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.
From the lottery

Top prize

$500

12 still unclaimed in the lottery data.

No changevs Oct 14, 2026
What does this mean?
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
Our estimate

Chance of coming out ahead

10.9%

A prize worth more than the ticket price. Winning your ticket cost back doesn’t count as coming out ahead.

Our estimate

Chance of the top prize

<0.1%

About 1 in 113,391.67 remaining tickets. This is an estimate.

Remaining prizes and tickets

What’s left in this game

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Worked out from lottery data

Unclaimed prizes

259,166

Out of 383,514 prizes in the source table.

67.6% left

29 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

Counts include tickets already sold whose prizes haven’t been claimed.

From the lottery

Top prizes left

12

Out of 21 top prizes originally.

57.1% left9 no longer remaining

No changevs Oct 14, 2026

From the lottery report for this game.

Our estimate

Estimated tickets left

1,360,700

1,920,000 tickets printed originally, according to the lottery.

153 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

Tickets left are an estimate. Unclaimed prizes don’t tell us exactly how many tickets are still for sale.

First on sale
Apr 28, 2026
Ticket sales end
Apr 17, 2036

We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →

Original vs. current

Original and current numbers

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Odds of any prize

Original at launch
1 in 5.2519.0% chance · Lottery-published
Latest estimate
1 in 5.2519.0% chance · PrizeGauge estimate

Approximately unchanged from launch

Average prize payout

Original at launch
$0.61Per ticket · Estimate using original data
Latest estimate
$0.60Per ticket · PrizeGauge estimate

$0.01 per ticket lower than launch

A smaller “1 in” number means a higher chance. Any prize includes prizes that only return the ticket cost. Original odds may be rounded; current values are estimates, not guaranteed outcomes.

Compare the price and average payouts

Here’s how the ticket price compares with the average prize payout we estimate. Your ticket could pay more, less, or nothing.

Ticket costs
$1.00
Estimated average payout
$0.60
Without the top prize
$0.60
What do these numbers mean?
From the lottery

Published by the lottery.

Worked out from lottery data

Worked out from the lottery’s own numbers.

Our estimate

Our best estimate, using data and assumptions we explain.

Average payout
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.
Return vs. ticket price
How the estimated average payout stacks up against what you spend. A minus sign means the average payout is less than the ticket price.
Payout without the jackpot
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.
Chance of Any Prize
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.
Top Prizes Left
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
Estimated Tickets Left
Our estimate of how many tickets may remain. The lottery does not publish this exact number, and sold but unclaimed tickets can affect it.
How reliable is the estimate?
How much trust to put in the estimate. It is not your chance of winning. Unknown means we don’t have a rating.
What does this mean?
Each ticket is a gamble. Better-looking numbers don’t promise a winning ticket.
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The numbers behind the ticket

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Our estimate

Estimated average payout today

$0.60

Estimated prize payout per ticket

Our estimate

EV Without the Top Prize

$0.60

Average prize value after treating the biggest prize as $0

Our estimate

ROI Without the Top Prize

-40.1%

How that alternate average payout compares with ticket price

Our estimate

Original EV

$0.61

Launch payout with modeled prize valuations

Our estimate

Modeled ROI

-39.7%

Estimated net return / ticket price

Our estimate

Average payout per $1 spent

$0.60

A 70¢ payout per $1 spent means a 30¢ average loss

Our estimate

Average return after the ticket cost

-$0.40

Estimated average prize payout minus the ticket price

From the lottery

Top prizes remaining

12

Original top prizes: 21

Our estimate

Estimated Tickets Left

1,360,700

An estimate, not an exact count from the lottery

Our estimate

Analytics availability

Launch: available

Full current EV: available

Without top prize: available

Chance of any prize: available

Confidence rating not published

We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →

How this estimate was made

Launch basis: published inception odds. Inventory basis: inferred from prize odds.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

Model assumptions
  • The published ticket total conflicts with the complete original winning-prize table and overall odds. This separately classified estimate uses the complete counts and coherent published odds as its population, assuming they describe one unchanged print cohort. The conflicting official ticket total is retained and is not used as the model denominator.
  • At least two tiers with 500 or more original prizes estimate remaining ticket inventory, weighted by original prize count; prize claims can lag ticket sales.

What goes into this estimate

The published ticket count conflicts with the prize data. This estimate uses a separately inferred ticket population and is compared separately.

Original prize table: complete. Remaining prize table: complete.

The ticket counts don’t line up

The lottery publishes 1,920,000 printed tickets. That number stays on record.

The model separately infers 2,013,449 original tickets from compatible prize inputs. This is a model assumption, not a correction to the official count.

See calculated counts and prize-value assumptions

These are the model’s inputs. A calculated or estimated count is separate from the literal count in the prize table.

Count and value inputs considered by the model
Prize wordingValue usedOriginal count usedRemaining count used
$1$1.00Published cash value161,188Published count110,511Published count
$2$2.00Published cash value95,651Published count64,721Published count
$4$4.00Published cash value40,334Published count26,990Published count
$5$5.00Published cash value55,431Published count36,710Published count
$10$10.00Published cash value20,152Published count13,215Published count
$20$20.00Published cash value10,076Published count6,573Published count
$40$40.00Published cash value335Published count222Published count
$50$50.00Published cash value326Published count212Published count
$500$500.00Published cash value21Published count12Published count

From the official source

The lottery’s prize table

Original overall odds: 1 in 5.25

These are the source’s published rows. A dash means the count is not published. Calculated original totals are labeled, and any derived remaining counts appear separately in the model inputs.

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Prize amounts and counts from this report. Current odds and average payout contributions, where shown, are estimates.
PrizeOriginal prizesRemaining prizes
$1161,188110,51168.6% of 161,188 left
$295,65164,72167.7% of 95,651 left
$440,33426,99066.9% of 40,334 left
$555,43136,71066.2% of 55,431 left
$1020,15213,21565.6% of 20,152 left
$2010,0766,57365.2% of 10,076 left
$4033522266.3% of 335 left
$5032621265.0% of 326 left
$500211257.1% of 21 left

About the estimates

Methodology & source

Each lottery publishes different information. We use the available game data and stated assumptions to estimate average payouts and tickets left. An unclaimed prize count is not a count of tickets still for sale.

Published prize observations stay separate from estimates. The model uses this game's reported coverage, ticket inventory and count assumptions; unavailable values retain their source explanations.

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Game history

See how the numbers have changed

A gap means we don’t have a number

We keep the last update of each day, using Eastern Time. If a day has no number, we leave a gap. We don’t fill in guesses.

Past numbers include calculations from archived prize reports. This covers the dates we have collected. 7-day change: insufficient history. 30-day change: insufficient history.

Estimated average payout Our estimate · dollars per ticket
$0.000009 highervs Oct 14, 2026

Extra decimals show estimate changes smaller than 1¢. We calculate daily changes before rounding.

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$0.601037$0.608009$0.614980Original average payout $0.612988Oct 14, 2026: $0.603029Oct 15, 2026: $0.603037Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Estimated average payout observations
DateEstimated average payoutChange from previous day
Oct 14, 2026$0.603029No daily comparison
Oct 15, 2026$0.603037$0.000009 higher compared with Oct 14, 2026
Prizes remaining From the daily prize table · count and share left

259,166 prizes left383,514 total · 67.6% left · Oct 15, 2026

29 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

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67.6%67.6%67.6%Oct 14, 2026: 67.6%Oct 15, 2026: 67.6%Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Prizes remaining observations
DatePrizes remainingUnclaimed countTotal prizesChange from previous day
Oct 14, 202667.6%259,195383,514No daily comparison
Oct 15, 202667.6%259,166383,51429 fewer compared with Oct 14, 2026
Top prizes remaining From the lottery · published count
No changevs Oct 14, 2026

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11.81212.2Oct 14, 2026: 12Oct 15, 2026: 12Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Top prizes remaining observations
DateTop prizes remainingChange from previous day
Oct 14, 202612No daily comparison
Oct 15, 202612No change compared with Oct 14, 2026
Estimated tickets left Our estimate · ticket count
153 fewervs Oct 14, 2026

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1.36M1.36M1.36MOct 14, 2026: 1,360,853Oct 15, 2026: 1,360,700Oct 14, 2026Oct 15, 2026
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Estimated tickets left observations
DateEstimated tickets leftChange from previous day
Oct 14, 20261,360,853No daily comparison
Oct 15, 20261,360,700153 fewer compared with Oct 14, 2026