AR · #868 · $20

Instant Million

Arkansas· Launched Oct 2025· 237 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.79

USA percentile

91th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

2

$1,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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Instant Million is a $20 scratch-off game from the Arkansas (game #868). It launched in October 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $1M remain unclaimed, as published by the Arkansas. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.96. Our models put its expected value at 0.79 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.79 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.79 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.67% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 91st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$1M
2/3
67%
$50K
0/2
$10K
2/4
$5K
4/6
$1K
129/260
$500
5.8K/12.3K
$100
39.3K/83.1K
$50
99.1K/208.5K
$40
79.7K/166.9K
$30
79.7K/166.9K
$20
200.5K/417.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $23.55M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 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 median0.71 EV/$
YOU · 91th
USA: 91th percentileAR: 89th 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 · -10%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — AR field

68 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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