GNOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Missouri· Launched Oct 2026· 13 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.66
USA percentile
47th
of 2,154 games
Top prizes left
4
$25,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-25
Forecast sellout
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GNOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS is a $2 scratch-off game from the Missouri lottery (game #572). It launched in October 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $25,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the Missouri lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.32. Our models put its expected value at 0.66 per dollar, returning about $0.66 per dollar on average at current prize levels, the best of 8 $2 games on sale in Missouri.
THE THESIS
At 0.66 EV/$, this game ranks 1 of 8 same-price games on sale in Missouri (median 0.64).
- 1.100% of $25,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 47th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
12 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $6.08M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,154 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 54% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.
Price vs EV — MO field
98 games · break-even highlighted1 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
GNOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: prizes, value and pace
As of October 25, 2026, 4 of the 4 $25,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,063,558 of 1,121,825 prizes (95%) remain.
At current prize levels a $2 ticket returns about $1.32 on average (0.66 per dollar), which ranks 1 of 8 $2 games on sale in Missouri, above the $2 median of 0.64. Among every Missouri game with a computable value it is 55 of 98; nationally it sits in the 47th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 13 days, 58,260 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the Missouri lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 25, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a MO game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.