Hello Money!
Maryland· scanned 6d ago
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
71th
of 2,195 games
Top prizes left
5
$50,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-28
Forecast sellout
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Hello Money! is a $5 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #817). As of the most recent daily scan, 5 top prizes of $50,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.95. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 7 of 24 $5 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 7 of 24 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.71).
- 1.71% of $50,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 71st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
10 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $11.31M — 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
Hello Money!: prizes, value and pace
As of October 28, 2026, 5 of the 7 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 797,431 of 1,045,616 prizes (76%) remain.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.59 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 7 of 24 $5 games on sale in Maryland, above the $5 median of 0.71. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 61 of 114; nationally it sits in the 71th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 180,424 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 top prizes.
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.