Diamonds & Gold
Michigan· Launched Mar 2024· 974 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.78
USA percentile
89th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$2,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Diamonds & Gold is a $20 scratch-off game from the Michigan lottery (game #480). It launched in March 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $2M remains unclaimed, as published by the Michigan lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.64. Our models put its expected value at 0.78 per dollar, returning about $0.78 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 13 of 18 $20 games on sale in Michigan.
THE THESIS
At 0.78 EV/$, this game ranks 13 of 18 same-price games on sale in Michigan (median 0.80).
- 1.33% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 89th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $43.47M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 21% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
Price vs EV — MI field
131 games · break-even highlighted2 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Diamonds & Gold: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 3 $2,000,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 769,979 of 1,814,668 prizes (42%) remain; the thinnest level is $2,000,000, with 33% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $15.51 on average (0.78 per dollar), which ranks 13 of 18 $20 games on sale in Michigan, below the $20 median of 0.80. Among every Michigan game with a computable value it is 34 of 131; nationally it sits in the 89th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 56 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Michigan lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a MI game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.