MO · #539 · $20

40TH ANNIVERSARY

Missouri· Launched Dec 2025· 219 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.72

USA percentile

70th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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40TH ANNIVERSARY is a $20 scratch-off game from the Missouri (game #539). It launched in December 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the Missouri. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.17. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.72 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 70th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$2M
0/2
0%
$100K
1/2
$86K
2/4
$20K
2/5
$10K
4/11
$5K
9/25
$1K
449/1.1K
$400
807/2.2K
$200
2.1K/5.4K
$100
78.7K/206.3K
$40
114.4K/299.6K
$20
199.9K/517.1K

Total unclaimed prize value: $18.03M — 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 MO games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MO median0.68 EV/$
YOU · 70th
USA: 70th percentileMO: 64th 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 · -5%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MO field

88 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.350.701.21break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

1 other MO game 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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