Holly-Day Cash
Maryland· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
72th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
7
$50,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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Holly-Day Cash is a $5 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #823). As of the most recent daily scan, 7 top prizes of $50,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.92. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 5 of 24 $5 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 5 of 24 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.71).
- 1.100% of $50,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 72nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $13.28M — 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 546% 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
Holly-Day Cash: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 7 of the 7 $50,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 940,204 of 991,294 prizes (95%) remain.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.6 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 5 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 58 of 114; nationally it sits in the 72th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 9 days, 51,090 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a 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.