MI · #729 · $5

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION

Michigan· Launched Oct 2025· 281 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

69th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

2

$300,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION is a $5 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #729). It launched in October 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $300 remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.76. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $300,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 69th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$300K
2/2
100%
$2K
4/10
$500
75/194
$100
1.1K/2.8K
$50
26.7K/65.4K
$20
168.5K/398.3K
$10
212.2K/489.5K
$5
251.4K/557.7K

Total unclaimed prize value: $8.84M — 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/$
YOU · 69th
USA: 69th percentileMI: 45th 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 · +4%

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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