MYSTERY PRIZE CROSSWORD — $5 Missouri scratch-off ticket
MO · #533 · $5

MYSTERY PRIZE CROSSWORD

Missouri· Launched Dec 2025· 269 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.67

USA percentile

49th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

3

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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MYSTERY PRIZE CROSSWORD is a $5 scratch-off game from the Missouri (game #533). It launched in December 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the Missouri. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.82. Our models put its expected value at 0.67 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.67 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.67 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.38% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 49th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

17 tiers · % remaining
$100K
3/8
38%
$10K
2/8
$2.5K
15/32
$1K
17/40
$500
180/556
$250
1.8K/5.9K
$100
1.8K/5.6K
$75
3.5K/11.2K
$60
3.5K/11.2K
$50
5.1K/16.2K
$40
4.4K/13.9K
$30
4.9K/15.6K
$25
26.9K/83.3K
$20
35.7K/111.1K
$15
63.4K/194.5K
$10
166.4K/500.3K
$5
270.7K/777.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $7.51M — 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 MO games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
YOU · 49th
USA: 49th percentileMO: 47th 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 · 0%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MO field

92 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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