Safe Cracker Cashword
Michigan· Launched Dec 2024· 701 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.59
USA percentile
18th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
0
$300,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Safe Cracker Cashword is a $5 scratch-off game from the Michigan lottery (game #669). It launched in December 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $300,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.67. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 31 of 31 $5 games on sale in Michigan.
THE THESIS
At 0.59 EV/$, this game ranks 31 of 31 same-price games on sale in Michigan (median 0.70).
- 1.Ranks in the 18th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
12 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $1.95M — 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% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
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
Safe Cracker Cashword: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 0 of the 3 $300,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 179,638 of 2,857,704 prizes (6%) remain; every $300,000 prize has already been claimed.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $2.96 on average (0.59 per dollar), which ranks 31 of 31 $5 games on sale in Michigan, below the $5 median of 0.70. Among every Michigan game with a computable value it is 122 of 131; nationally it sits in the 18th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 716 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.