Mega Cash Crossword
Arkansas· Launched Feb 2026· 274 days on shelf· scanned 65d ago
EV / Dollar
0.59
USA percentile
17th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
0
$75,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-08-31
Forecast sellout
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Mega Cash Crossword is a $3 scratch-off game from the Arkansas lottery (game #879). It launched in February 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $75,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Arkansas lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.50. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 5 of 5 $3 games on sale in Arkansas.
THE THESIS
At 0.59 EV/$, this game ranks 5 of 5 same-price games on sale in Arkansas (median 0.66).
- 1.Ranks in the 17th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $463,424 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersPrice vs EV — AR field
77 games · break-even highlightedNo 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Mega Cash Crossword: prizes, value and pace
As of August 31, 2026, 0 of the 3 $75,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 75,046 of 594,168 prizes (13%) remain; every $75,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $3 ticket returns about $1.76 on average (0.59 per dollar), which ranks 5 of 5 $3 games on sale in Arkansas, below the $3 median of 0.66. Among every Arkansas game with a computable value it is 66 of 73; nationally it sits in the 17th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 25 days, 20,010 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Arkansas lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the August 31, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a AR game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.