$1,000 Mayhem — $5 Arkansas scratch-off ticket
AR · #862 · $5

$1,000 Mayhem

Arkansas· Launched Sep 2025· 335 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.67

USA percentile

51th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

236

$1,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

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, 236 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. 1.16% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 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
236/1.5K
16%
$500
6/25
$100
95/607
$50
2.1K/14.0K
$20
5.1K/31.5K
$10
30.1K/178.9K
$5
38.5K/200.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $949,385 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 median0.69 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 · -6%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — AR field

77 games · break-even highlighted
$0$6$12$220.000.250.500.99YOU

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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