Deluxe Crossword#816
Maryland· scanned 6d ago
EV / Dollar
0.71
USA percentile
69th
of 2,195 games
Top prizes left
6
$50,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-28
Forecast sellout
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Deluxe Crossword is a $5 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #816). As of the most recent daily scan, 6 top prizes of $50,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.45. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 12 of 24 $5 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 12 of 24 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.71).
- 1.75% of $50,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 69th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
13 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $12.09M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,195 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 88% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
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
Deluxe Crossword (#816): prizes, value and pace
As of October 28, 2026, 6 of the 8 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 982,998 of 1,125,970 prizes (87%) remain.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.56 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 12 of 24 $5 games on sale in Maryland, level with the $5 median of 0.71. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 66 of 114; nationally it sits in the 69th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 111,206 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 top prizes.
Maryland also sells another issue of Deluxe Crossword: game #763. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
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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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a MD game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.