Spicy Hot Cash! — $2 Mississippi scratch-off ticket
MS · #254 · $2

Spicy Hot Cash!

Mississippi· Launched Jul 2026· 55 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.64

USA percentile

38th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

2

$20,000 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.

Spicy Hot Cash! is a $2 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #254). It launched in July 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $20 remain unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.64. Our models put its expected value at 0.64 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.64 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.64 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $20,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 38th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$20K
2/2
100%
$2K
2/3
$500
50/75
$200
393/614
$100
291/465
$50
606/960
$20
4.2K/6.7K
$10
12.5K/20.0K
$5
55.4K/86.8K
$2
65.4K/100.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $824,761 — 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 · 38th
USA: 38th percentileMS: 72th 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 · -5%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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