Make every wish a merry one this holiday season with a gift tag that offers
gift recipients up to eight chances to win. Each of the five celebratory
scenes of **Merry Wishes Scratchers ®** features instant wins, a prize
doubler, and a **TOP PRIZE OF $5,000!**
How to play Merry Wishes in California
Scratch off entire "PLAY AREA" to uncover 8 symbols.
Uncover a "gift box" symbol to win that prize.
Uncover a "star" symbol to win DOUBLE that prize.
Analysis
Merry Wishes has a score of 59, making it
one of the worst scratchoffs in the country.
There are 6,453,153 tickets remaining. At $1 per ticket, it would cost $6,453,153 to buy all remaining
tickets. According to the latest reports from the California lottery website, there
are $3,794,874 in remaining prizes.
The value of the remaining prizes is below
the cost of the remaining tickets by $2,658,279. With 6,453,153 tickets remaining, that's an average of
-$0.41 per ticket.
An average of 6,866 tickets have been claimed each day between
4/18/2025 and 4/25/2025. The largest prize
claimed in that time period was $100.
The last grand prize of $5,000
was claimed on 4/9/2025. 78,738 tickets have been sold since the last grand prize was claimed. With
90 grand prizes in the game,
it's expected that there will be 1 grand prize sold every 243,501 tickets.
