MI · #494 · $30

Colossal Cashword

Michigan· Launched Sep 2023· 1065 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

54th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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Colossal Cashword is a $30 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #494). It launched in September 2023. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.44. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 54th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$2M
0/3
0%
$10K
1/23
$5K
5/175
$600
630/20.9K
$200
3.8K/136.0K
$100
7.9K/265.4K
$60
10.6K/281.9K
$50
7.9K/250.8K
$30
20.6K/501.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $3.61M — 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 · 54th
USA: 54th percentileMI: 25th 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 · +19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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