$1,000,000 Money Maker
District of Columbia· Launched Sep 2024· 791 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.83
USA percentile
97th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$680,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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$1,000,000 Money Maker is a $30 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia lottery (game #1598). It launched in September 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $680,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.45. Our models put its expected value at 0.83 per dollar, returning about $0.83 per dollar on average at current prize levels.
THE THESIS
At 0.83 EV/$, this game returns about $0.83 for every $1 spent at current prize levels.
- 1.100% of $680,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 97th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $7.79M — 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 DC 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 tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 16% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — DC field
200 games · break-even highlightedNo other active DC 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
$1,000,000 Money Maker: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 2 $680,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 90,367 of 132,782 prizes (68%) remain.
At current prize levels a $30 ticket returns about $24.98 on average (0.83 per dollar). Among every District of Columbia game with a computable value it is 5 of 169; nationally it sits in the 97th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 640 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the District of Columbia lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a DC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.