EMERALD MINE
Indiana· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
73th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$500,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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EMERALD MINE is a $20 scratch-off game from the Indiana lottery (game #2558). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500,000 remains unclaimed, as published by the Indiana lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.63. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 5 $20 games on sale in Indiana.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 5 same-price games on sale in Indiana (median 0.73).
- 1.33% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 73rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
8 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $13.57M — 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 IN 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 — IN field
107 games · break-even highlighted1 other IN 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
EMERALD MINE: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 3 $500,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 8 prize levels the lottery reports, 202,329 of 628,963 prizes (32%) remain; the thinnest level is $200, with 32% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $14.49 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 5 $20 games on sale in Indiana, below the $20 median of 0.73. Among every Indiana game with a computable value it is 16 of 20; nationally it sits in the 73th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 563 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Indiana 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 IN game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.