Loose Change® — $1 Maryland scratch-off ticket
MD · #812 · $1

Loose Change®

Maryland· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

20th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

21

$1,000 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.

Loose Change® is a $1 scratch-off game from the Maryland (game #812). As of the most recent daily scan, 21 top prizes of $1 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.51. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.60 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.88% of $1,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 20th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$1K
21/24
88%
$500
65/70
$100
224/245
$50
664/697
$20
25.6K/26.8K
$10
19.6K/20.6K
$5
117.8K/123.7K
$2
235.9K/247.5K
$1
472.6K/495.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.35M — 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 · 20th
USA: 20th percentileMD: 12th 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 · +348%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 348% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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