MI · #715 · $20

King Cashword

Michigan· Launched Jun 2025· 401 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.79

USA percentile

91th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$1,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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King Cashword is a $20 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #715). It launched in June 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $1M remains unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.28. 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. 1.33% of $1.0M 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
$1M
1/3
33%
$5K
9/30
$1K
187/609
$500
775/3.0K
$200
11.6K/45.8K
$100
57.9K/229.3K
$50
32.5K/127.9K
$40
79.3K/305.7K
$30
58.9K/229.2K
$20
121.8K/458.7K

Total unclaimed prize value: $18.74M — 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 · 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 · +7%

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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