MO · #502 · $20

DIAMONDS & GOLD

Missouri· Launched Dec 2024· 539 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.79

USA percentile

90th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

$2,000,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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DIAMONDS & GOLD is a $20 scratch-off game from the Missouri (game #502). It launched in December 2024. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $2M remains unclaimed, as published by the Missouri. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.04. 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.

1.50% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 90th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining

$2M

1/2

50%

$100K

3/4

$20K

2/5

$10K

7/11

$5K

13/25

$1K

507/1.1K

$500

810/1.8K

$200

2.5K/5.5K

$100

62.1K/136.4K

$50

64.0K/140.4K

$40

149.7K/327.3K

$20

213.7K/463.6K

Total unclaimed prize value: $23.56M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 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 median0.67 EV/$

YOU · 90th

USA: 90th percentileMO: 84th 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 — MO field

83 games · break-even highlighted

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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