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$500 MAYHEM
District of Columbia· Launched May 2025· 481 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.70
USA percentile
64th
of 2,082 games
Top prizes left
149
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-08-31
Forecast sellout
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$500 MAYHEM is a $5 scratch-off game from the District of Columbia (game #1623). It launched in May 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 149 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the District of Columbia. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.11. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.
THE THESIS
At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.
- 1.34% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 64th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
6 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $292,670 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,082 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 tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
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.
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