$8,000,000 Payout — $50 Michigan scratch-off ticket
MI · #740 · $50

$8,000,000 Payout

Michigan· Launched Mar 2026· 181 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.81

USA percentile

94th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

2

$8,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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$8,000,000 Payout is a $50 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #740). It launched in March 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $8M remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.17. Our models put its expected value at 0.81 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.81 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.81 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.67% of $8.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 94th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$8M
2/3
67%
$10K
61/81
$2K
1.5K/2.0K
$500
52.8K/74.2K
$200
335.6K/472.4K
$150
110.7K/155.3K
$100
621.4K/872.9K
$50
623.2K/873.3K

Total unclaimed prize value: $222.97M — 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 MI games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MI median0.74 EV/$
YOU · 94th
USA: 94th percentileMI: 84th 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 · +3%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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