Diamonds & Gold — $30 Maryland scratch-off ticket
MD · #797 · $30

Diamonds & Gold

Maryland· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.77

USA percentile

87th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

1

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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

Diamonds & Gold is a $30 scratch-off game from the Maryland (game #797). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $2M remains unclaimed, as published by the Maryland. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.81. Our models put its expected value at 0.77 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.77 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.77 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.50% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 87th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$2M
1/2
50%
$50K
3/4
$10K
6/10
$5K
133/180
$1K
1.3K/1.8K
$500
7.7K/10.7K
$200
26.6K/36.8K
$100
52.8K/73.4K
$50
105.8K/146.7K
$40
158.9K/220.1K
$30
211.9K/293.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $36.66M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 · 87th
USA: 87th percentileMD: 80th 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 · -2%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MD field

104 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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