Blazing Hot Bucks — $5 Mississippi scratch-off ticket
MS · #206 · $5

Blazing Hot Bucks

Mississippi· Launched May 2025· 482 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.55

USA percentile

7th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

0

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Blazing Hot Bucks is a $5 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #206). It launched in May 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.95. Our models put its expected value at 0.55 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.55 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.55 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.Ranks in the 7th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$100K
0/2
0%
$10K
0/3
$5K
0/4
$500
2/94
$100
101/2.8K
$50
171/5.4K
$25
1.0K/23.5K
$20
2.3K/47.0K
$10
5.1K/93.9K
$5
8.3K/112.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $182,105 — 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 MS games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
MS median0.60 EV/$
YOU · 7th
USA: 7th percentileMS: 32th 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 · -48%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 48% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — MS field

100 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.300.601.01break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

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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