THE GAME OF LIFE™
Maryland· scanned 7d ago
EV / Dollar
0.79
USA percentile
92th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
3
$1,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-28
Forecast sellout
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THE GAME OF LIFE™ is a $20 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #609). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $1M remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.02. Our models put its expected value at 0.79 per dollar, returning about $0.79 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 11 $20 games on sale in Maryland.
THE THESIS
At 0.79 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 11 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.77).
- 1.60% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 92nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $28.71M — 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
THE GAME OF LIFE™: prizes, value and pace
As of October 28, 2026, 3 of the 5 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 602,842 of 1,129,732 prizes (53%) remain.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $15.77 on average (0.79 per dollar), which ranks 2 of 11 $20 games on sale in Maryland, above the $20 median of 0.77. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 12 of 114; nationally it sits in the 92th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 5,377 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.