Hello Money!Maryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Hello Money! is one of the Maryland Lottery's $5 games. At launch, about 1 in 121,476 tickets carried a prize of $1,000 or more. It pays back about $0.72 per $1 on average, in line with Maryland's other $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.72 per $1 spent.
- Strong prize quality: a healthy share of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | 7 | 5 | 71% |
| $5,000 | 13 | 10 | 77% |
| $1,000 | 14 | 11 | 79% |
| $500 | 280 | 203 | 73% |
| $150 | 1,717 | 1,236 | 72% |
| $100 | 2,505 | 1,802 | 72% |
| $50 | 28,131 | 20,185 | 72% |
| $25 | 72,979 | 52,809 | 72% |
| $20 | 115,230 | 83,258 | 72% |
| $10 | 824,740 | 598,314 | 73% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on September 20, 2 $50,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 5. The most recent was on October 30.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| September 20 | Launched | 7 |
| October 16 | 1 claimed | 6 |
| October 30 | 1 claimed | 5 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 5 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 3.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 6 times the average for Maryland's $5 games (0.6% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #1 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 140,000 tickets a week.
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
- 817
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 9/18/2026
- Payout %
- 72.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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All 23 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Crossword | 68 | 1 in 3.45 | 71.5% | $50K · 6 | 2.1% |
| Holly-Day Cash | 66 | 1 in 3.92 | 72.0% | $50K · 7 | 4.4% |
| The Price is Right™ | 57 | 1 in 3.56 | 72.0% | $50K · 4 | 2.4% |
| Gold Bar Bingo | 57 | 1 in 3.75 | 72.4% | $50K · 5 | 1.1% |
| Hello Money! (this game) | 52 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.0% | $50K · 5 | 3.4% |
| In the Green | 45 | 1 in 3.87 | 71.4% | $50K · 4 | 1.9% |
| Winning Streak | 45 | 1 in 3.78 | 72.0% | $50K · 2 | 0.3% |
| Cash Blast | 43 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.1% | $50K · 4 | 0.1% |
| Multiply Your Money | 42 | 1 in 3.88 | 72.0% | $50K · 3 | 1.5% |
| Gold Bar Bingo (Game #756) | 40 | 1 in 3.76 | 72.5% | $50K · 1 | 0.0% |
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.