FL · #1539 · $20

$5M CROSSWORD CASH

Florida· Launched Aug 2023· 1094 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

61th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$5,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

$5M CROSSWORD CASH is a $20 scratch-off game from the Florida (game #1539). It launched in August 2023. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $5M remain unclaimed, as published by the Florida. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.9. 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. 1.Ranks in the 61st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

13 tiers · % remaining
$5M
0/6
0%
$1M
2/18
$100K
2/18
$1K
1.4K/9.7K
$500
956/7.4K
$250
2.1K/16.1K
$200
7.7K/58.2K
$150
10.7K/81.3K
$100
121.8K/913.9K
$50
109.0K/803.6K
$40
108.4K/803.7K
$30
224.4K/1.6M
$20
625.7K/4.0M

Total unclaimed prize value: $48.97M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active FL games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
YOU · 61th
USA: 61th percentileFL: 54th 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 · +8%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — FL field

95 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.300.601.14break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

1 other FL game above break-even at this time.

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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