Mega Money
Maryland· scanned 7d ago
EV / Dollar
0.84
USA percentile
97th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
4
$2,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-28
Forecast sellout
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Mega Money is a $30 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #690). As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.90. Our models put its expected value at 0.84 per dollar, returning about $0.84 per dollar on average at current prize levels, the best of 8 $30 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.84 EV/$, this game ranks 1 of 8 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.79).
- 1.80% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 97th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $46.46M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 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 100% 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
Mega Money: prizes, value and pace
As of October 28, 2026, 4 of the 5 $2,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 637,726 of 1,215,403 prizes (52%) remain.
At current prize levels a $30 ticket returns about $25.12 on average (0.84 per dollar), which ranks 1 of 8 $30 games on sale in Maryland, above the $30 median of 0.79. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 1 of 114; nationally it sits in the 97th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 7,778 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 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.