MS · #241 · $5

Money Bags

Mississippi· Launched Apr 2026· 76 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

68th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

2

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

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.

Money Bags is a $5 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #241). It launched in April 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.01. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 68th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$100K
2/2
100%
$5K
2/3
$2.5K
2/4
$500
29/56
$250
74/141
$100
1.0K/2.0K
$50
5.7K/11.1K
$25
12.4K/23.6K
$20
19.8K/37.7K
$10
50.1K/94.2K
$5
61.7K/113.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.15M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,870 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 median0.59 EV/$
YOU · 68th
USA: 68th percentileMS: 86th 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 · -14%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MS field

88 games · break-even highlighted
$0$8$16$24$320.000.250.500.92YOU

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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