MD · #797 · $30

Diamonds & Gold

Maryland· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.80

USA percentile

93th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

2

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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Diamonds & Gold is a $30 scratch-off game from the Maryland (game #797). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.81. Our models put its expected value at 0.80 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.80 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.80 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 93rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$2M
2/2
100%
$50K
3/4
$10K
9/10
$5K
156/180
$1K
1.5K/1.8K
$500
8.9K/10.7K
$200
30.7K/36.8K
$100
61.2K/73.4K
$50
122.5K/146.7K
$40
183.8K/220.1K
$30
245.2K/293.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $44.11M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 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 median0.73 EV/$
YOU · 93th
USA: 93th percentileMD: 98th 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 · -13%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MD field

95 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.93YOU

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.

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