MI · #615 · $5

$500,000 Winter Ice

Michigan· Launched Dec 2023· 974 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

63th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$500,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$500,000 Winter Ice is a $5 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #615). It launched in December 2023. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $500 remains unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.05. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.50% of $500,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 63rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$500K
1/2
50%
$500
7/15
$100
810/2.7K
$50
24.9K/79.5K
$20
46.4K/141.1K
$15
49.5K/149.9K
$10
100.2K/299.9K
$5
147.6K/414.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $5.24M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active MI games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MI median0.75 EV/$
YOU · 63th
USA: 63th percentileMI: 34th 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 · -26%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 26% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — MI field

118 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.350.701.33break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

2 other MI games above break-even at this time.

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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