CA$H — $1 Maryland scratch-off ticket
MD · #754 · $1

CA$H

Maryland· scanned 7d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.55

USA percentile

7th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

3

$1,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-28

Forecast sellout

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

CA$H is a $1 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #754). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $1,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.51. Our models put its expected value at 0.55 per dollar, returning about $0.55 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 6 of 8 $1 games on sale in Maryland.

THE THESIS

At 0.55 EV/$, this game ranks 6 of 8 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.56).

  1. 1.16% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 7th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$1K
3/19
16%
$500
14/107
$100
22/160
$50
178/2.3K
$20
229/2.8K
$10
3.0K/35.5K
$5
8.2K/89.8K
$2
29.7K/264.5K
$1
37.5K/305.6K

Total unclaimed prize value: $194,057 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 active games

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

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MD median0.72 EV/$
YOU · 7th
USA: 7th percentileMD: 4th 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 · -100%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 100% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — MD field

114 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.94YOU

No other active MD 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

CA$H: prizes, value and pace

As of October 28, 2026, 3 of the 19 $1,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 78,929 of 700,815 prizes (11%) remain; the thinnest level is $50, with 8% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.55 on average (0.55 per dollar), which ranks 6 of 8 $1 games on sale in Maryland, below the $1 median of 0.56. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 109 of 114; nationally it sits in the 7th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 369 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.

Figures come from the prize data the Maryland lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 28, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.

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