Win $100, $200 or $500 — $20 Maryland scratch-off ticket
MD · #825 · $20

Win $100, $200 or $500#825

Maryland· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.78

USA percentile

88th

of 2,154 games

Top prizes left

12503

$500 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-25

Forecast sellout

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18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Win $100, $200 or $500 is a $20 scratch-off game from the Maryland lottery (game #825). As of the most recent daily scan, 12503 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the Maryland lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 8.74. Our models put its expected value at 0.78 per dollar, returning about $0.78 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 11 $20 games on sale in Maryland.

THE THESIS

At 0.78 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 11 same-price games on sale in Maryland (median 0.77).

  1. 1.98% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 88th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

3 tiers · % remaining
$500
12.5K/12.8K
98%
$200
142.1K/145.9K
$100
386.4K/396.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $73.31M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,154 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 · 88th
USA: 88th percentileMD: 82th 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 · +370%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 370% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — MD field

114 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.250.500.94YOU

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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

Win $100, $200 or $500 (#825): prizes, value and pace

As of October 25, 2026, 12503 of the 12,822 $500 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 3 prize levels the lottery reports, 540,970 of 554,986 prizes (97%) remain.

At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $15.5 on average (0.78 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 11 $20 games on sale in Maryland, level with the $20 median of 0.77. Among every Maryland game with a computable value it is 20 of 114; nationally it sits in the 88th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 9 days, 14,016 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 319 top prizes.

Maryland also sells another issue of Win $100, $200 or $500: game #718. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.

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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