Cozy Cash
Maryland· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.60
USA percentile
21th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
34
$500 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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Cozy Cash is a $1 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #820). As of the most recent daily scan, 34 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.33. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels, the best of 8 $1 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.60 EV/$, this game ranks 1 of 8 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.56).
- 1.97% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 21st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
7 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $1.97M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,154 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 701% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
Price vs EV — MD field
114 games · break-even highlightedNo 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
Cozy Cash: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 34 of the 35 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 7 prize levels the lottery reports, 758,998 of 781,228 prizes (97%) remain.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.6 on average (0.60 per dollar), which ranks 1 of 8 $1 games on sale in Maryland, above the $1 median of 0.56. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 101 of 114; nationally it sits in the 21th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 9 days, 22,230 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 1 top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Maryland lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a MD game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.