MS · #247 · $5

Wheel of Fortune ($5)

Mississippi· Launched May 2026· 48 days on shelf· scanned yesterday

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

67th

of 1,870 games

Top prizes left

3

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-06-21

Forecast sellout

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Wheel of Fortune ($5) is a $5 scratch-off game from the Mississippi (game #247). It launched in May 2026. As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $100 remain unclaimed, as published by the Mississippi. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.39. 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 67th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$100K
3/3
100%
$10K
3/4
$2.5K
7/10
$500
67/84
$100
2.0K/3.1K
$50
10.4K/15.8K
$25
24.2K/36.1K
$20
13.8K/20.7K
$10
55.8K/82.7K
$5
84.8K/123.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.97M — 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 · 67th
USA: 67th percentileMS: 85th 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 · -19%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 19% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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