Merry Money
New Mexico· Launched Oct 2025· 393 days on shelf· scanned today
EV / Dollar
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USA percentile
0th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
988
$20 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Merry Money is a $1 scratch-off game from the New Mexico lottery (game #661). It launched in October 2025. As of the most recent daily scan, 988 top prizes of $20 remain unclaimed, as published by the New Mexico lottery.
Prize ladder
5 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $98,814 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active NM games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 18% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — NM field
69 games · break-even highlightedNot enough games with EV data to render scatter plot.
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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Merry Money: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 988 of the 4,217 $20 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 5 prize levels the lottery reports, 39,476 of 136,402 prizes (29%) remain; the thinnest level is $5, with 23% of its prizes left.
Over the last 30 days, 213 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 3 top prizes.
Figures come from the prize data the New Mexico lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NM game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.