MS · #219 · $5

$500 Loaded

Mississippi· Launched Aug 2025· 341 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.59

USA percentile

16th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

43

$500 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$500 Loaded is a $5 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #219). It launched in August 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 43 top prizes of $500 remain unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.12. Our models put its expected value at 0.59 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.59 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.59 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.4% of $500 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 16th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$500
43/1.2K
4%
$100
18/601
$50
266/7.9K
$25
477/8.6K
$20
1.2K/34.4K
$15
436/8.6K
$10
4.9K/103.1K
$5
5.5K/86.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $155,915 — 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 MS games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
YOU · 16th
USA: 16th percentileMS: 45th 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 · +9%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MS field

96 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.250.500.96YOU

No other active MS games currently clear break-even.

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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