MO · #531 · $5

MERRY MONEY

Missouri· Launched Oct 2025· 296 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.65

USA percentile

44th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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MERRY MONEY is a $5 scratch-off game from the Missouri (game #531). It launched in October 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $100 remains unclaimed, as published by the Missouri. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.84. Our models put its expected value at 0.65 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.65 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.65 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.33% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 44th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$100K
1/3
33%
$20K
0/3
$5K
0/11
$1K
9/56
$500
19/112
$100
2.4K/12.3K
$50
6.6K/32.7K
$30
3.2K/16.4K
$20
17.9K/81.7K
$15
22.8K/109.0K
$10
49.7K/217.9K
$5
92.5K/381.5K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.44M — 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 · 44th
USA: 44th percentileMO: 40th 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 · +28%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 28% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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