AR · #862 · $5

$1,000 Mayhem

Arkansas· Launched Sep 2025· 309 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.67

USA percentile

51th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

244

$1,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$1,000 Mayhem is a $5 scratch-off game from the Arkansas (game #862). It launched in September 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 244 top prizes of $1 remain unclaimed, as published by the Arkansas. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.70. Our models put its expected value at 0.67 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.67 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.67 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.16% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 51st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

7 tiers · % remaining

$1K

244/1.5K

16%

$500

6/25

$100

98/607

$50

2.2K/14.0K

$20

5.3K/31.5K

$10

31.3K/178.9K

39.9K/200.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $984,295 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active AR games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$

AR median0.70 EV/$

YOU · 51th

USA: 51th percentileAR: 44th 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 · +12%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — AR field

77 games · break-even highlighted

No other active AR 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.

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