Just 1 BuckMaryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Just 1 Buck is a $1 ticket from the Maryland Lottery. It pays back about $0.60 per $1 on average, in line with Maryland's other $1 games. On ValueScore it earns 17/100 (Poor), good for 4th out of 6 $1 tickets in Maryland.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- At 1 in 4.34, winning tickets turn up less often than usual.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 | 41 | 12 | 29% |
| $50 | 896 | 187 | 21% |
| $20 | 7,001 | 1,622 | 23% |
| $10 | 36,989 | 9,121 | 25% |
| $5 | 108,068 | 28,745 | 27% |
| $2 | 296,861 | 91,301 | 31% |
| $1 | 333,783 | 105,487 | 32% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, 5 $500 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 12. The most recent was on May 21.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 | Our records begin | 17 |
| March 11 | 1 claimed | 16 |
| March 22 | 1 claimed | 15 |
| March 29 | 1 claimed | 14 |
| April 5 | 1 claimed | 13 |
| May 21 | 1 claimed | 12 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 12 |
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 $1 games (1.2% a week). By tickets sold, it is still the estimated #57 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 1,000 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
- 767
- Ticket Price
- $1
- Start Date
- 10/17/2025
- Payout %
- 60.1%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
Every $1 ticket in Maryland
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy Cash | 41 | 1 in 4.33 | 60.0% | $500 · 33 | 2.7% |
| Loose Change® | 31 | 1 in 4.51 | 59.9% | $1K · 15 | 2.8% |
| Triple Red 7s | 27 | 1 in 4.48 | 60.1% | $777 · 19 | 1.3% |
| Just 1 Buck (this game) | 17 | 1 in 4.34 | 60.1% | $500 · 12 | 0.0% |
| 5X the Cash | 11 | 1 in 4.58 | 60.0% | $1K · 5 | 0.2% |
| Cash Tripler | 10 | 1 in 4.55 | 60.1% | $1K · 5 | 0.5% |
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.