Money Bags
Arkansas· Launched Jun 2025· 519 days on shelf· scanned 65d ago
EV / Dollar
0.61
USA percentile
22th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$5,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-08-31
Forecast sellout
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Money Bags is a $1 scratch-off game from the Arkansas lottery (game #843). It launched in June 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $5,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Arkansas lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.55. Our models put its expected value at 0.61 per dollar, returning about $0.61 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 11 $1 games on sale in Arkansas.
THE THESIS
At 0.61 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 11 same-price games on sale in Arkansas (median 0.60).
- 1.67% of $5,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 22nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
10 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $246,924 — 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
Money Bags: prizes, value and pace
As of August 31, 2026, 2 of the 3 $5,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 89,561 of 294,784 prizes (30%) remain; the thinnest level is $40, with 25% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.61 on average (0.61 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 11 $1 games on sale in Arkansas, above the $1 median of 0.60. Among every Arkansas game with a computable value it is 61 of 73; nationally it sits in the 22th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 25 days, 704 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.