Candy Cane CashMaryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Candy Cane Cash is one of the Maryland Lottery's $3 games. The $30,000 prize now runs about 1 in 396,479 by our estimate, better than 1 in 487,659 at launch. 63% of its winning tickets pay $3 or less, no more than the ticket cost. Its ValueScore of 26/100 (Below Avg) makes it 7th out of 9 $3 tickets in Maryland.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 488K at launch, about 1 in 396K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $30,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| $500 | 397 | 95 | 24% |
| $100 | 2,863 | 761 | 27% |
| $30 | 60,905 | 15,309 | 25% |
| $10 | 209,528 | 54,632 | 26% |
| $3 | 465,178 | 129,443 | 28% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $30,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 | Our records begin | 2 |
| November 7 | Latest count, none claimed | 2 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Maryland's $3 games (0.4% a week). By tickets sold, it is still the estimated #62 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 540 tickets a week: a small share of a big print run is a lot of tickets.
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- Maryland
- Game Number
- 769
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 10/17/2025
- Payout %
- 68.2%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $3 ticket in Maryland
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppermint Payout | 54 | 1 in 3.94 | 67.9% | $30K · 6 | 3.0% |
| Diamond Bingo | 47 | 1 in 3.76 | 67.6% | $30K · 5 | 1.4% |
| Ms.PAC-MAN™ | 44 | 1 in 3.92 | 67.6% | $30K · 4 | 0.3% |
| Bonus Crossword | 39 | 1 in 3.66 | 67.6% | $30K · 3 | 0.7% |
| Diamond Bingo (Game #749) | 39 | 1 in 3.77 | 67.6% | $30K · 4 | 0.0% |
| PRESS YOUR LUCK® | 36 | 1 in 4.01 | 67.3% | $30K · 3 | 0.0% |
| Candy Cane Cash (this game) | 26 | 1 in 3.96 | 68.2% | $30K · 2 | 0.0% |
| Loteria™ | 20 | 1 in 3.86 | 67.6% | $30K · 2 | 0.0% |
| SKEE-BALL® | 20 | 1 in 4.09 | 67.6% | $15K · 1 | 0.2% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.