MI · #759 · $20

Big Money Pay Day

Michigan· Launched Jul 2026· 14 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.79

USA percentile

91th

of 1,955 games

Top prizes left

3

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-07-21

Forecast sellout

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Big Money Pay Day is a $20 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #759). It launched in July 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.65. Our models put its expected value at 0.79 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.79 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.79 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 91st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$2M
3/3
100%
$10K
13/14
$2K
204/213
$500
1.7K/1.8K
$300
3.0K/3.2K
$200
61.5K/65.0K
$100
384.0K/406.2K
$50
303.4K/320.8K
$30
303.4K/320.7K
$20
607.0K/641.5K

Total unclaimed prize value: $95.40M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,955 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 · 91th
USA: 91th percentileMI: 75th 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 · +567%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 567% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

Price vs EV — MI field

115 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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