Safe Cracker Cashword — $5 Michigan scratch-off ticket
MI · #669 · $5

Safe Cracker Cashword

Michigan· Launched Dec 2024· 636 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.59

USA percentile

19th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

0

$300,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Safe Cracker Cashword is a $5 scratch-off game from the Michigan (game #669). It launched in December 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $300 remain unclaimed, as published by the Michigan. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.67. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.59 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 19th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$300K
0/3
0%
$1K
5/142
$500
41/701
$100
305/7.0K
$75
389/10.5K
$50
2.1K/52.4K
$30
3.2K/79.8K
$25
9.2K/209.9K
$20
14.9K/272.8K
$15
13.9K/293.7K
$10
53.1K/818.6K
$5
84.5K/1.1M

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.98M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 median0.74 EV/$
YOU · 19th
USA: 19th percentileMI: 8th 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 · -10%

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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