MS · #209 · $5

Gold Rush

Mississippi· Launched Jun 2025· 428 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.55

USA percentile

8th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

0

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

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.

Gold Rush is a $5 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #209). It launched in June 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 3.91. 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 8th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$100K
0/2
0%
$2.5K
1/5
$500
1/96
$100
27/1.1K
$50
155/5.9K
$25
2.4K/62.9K
$20
918/21.0K
$10
5.3K/104.8K
$5
9.0K/125.7K

Total unclaimed prize value: $189,740 — 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/$
MS median0.60 EV/$
YOU · 8th
USA: 8th percentileMS: 33th 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 · -32%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 32% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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