MS · #247 · $5

Wheel of Fortune ($5)

Mississippi· Launched May 2026· 92 days on shelf· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

62th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

$100,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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

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, 2 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 0.70 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.67% of $100,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 62nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

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Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining

$100K

2/3

67%

$10K

3/4

$2.5K

5/10

$500

57/84

$100

1.5K/3.1K

$50

7.9K/15.8K

$25

18.3K/36.1K

$20

10.4K/20.7K

$10

42.5K/82.7K

65.2K/123.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $2.24M — 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 · 62th

USA: 62th percentileMS: 81th 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 · +6%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — MS field

96 games · break-even highlighted

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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