The Michigan Lottery sells In The Money as a $5 ticket. By our estimate the $500,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,507,873 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,097,233. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 262,154 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.1M at launch, about 1 in 1.5M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $500,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
- At $0.70 back per $1, the return here is middle-of-the-road for this price point.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| $2,000 | 21 | 16 | 76% |
| $600 | 105 | 74 | 70% |
| $200 | 534 | 381 | 71% |
| $100 | 10,532 | 7,488 | 71% |
| $50 | 24,557 | 17,460 | 71% |
| $30 | 14,486 | 10,311 | 71% |
| $25 | 289,608 | 206,556 | 71% |
| $20 | 100,731 | 71,741 | 71% |
| $15 | 138,506 | 98,823 | 71% |
| $10 | 314,779 | 225,302 | 72% |
| $5 | 629,552 | 457,152 | 73% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 3 $500,000 top prizes left at launch on July 9 are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for Michigan's $5 games (0.4% 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
- Michigan
- Game Number
- 0747
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 7/7/2026
- Payout %
- 70.1%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Michigan
All 31 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Box Multiplier Cashword | 73 | 1 in 3.67 | 70.1% | $300K · 3 | 1.4% |
| Gold Rush Tripler | 60 | 1 in 4.18 | 70.3% | $500K · 3 | 2.9% |
| In The Money (this game) | 60 | 1 in 4.13 | 70.1% | $500K · 3 | 1.4% |
| $500,000 Loteria | 60 | 1 in 3.78 | 70.0% | $500K · 3 | 0.0% |
| Spectacular Wild Time | 55 | 1 in 3.63 | 70.2% | $500K · 2 | 0.5% |
| Lucky Stars | 55 | 1 in 3.99 | 73.1% | $1M · 2 | 1.1% |
| Fireball Bingo | 54 | 1 in 3.93 | 70.4% | $300K · 3 | 1.5% |
| $500,000 Bonus Scratch Multiplier | 53 | 1 in 4.10 | 70.1% | $500K · 2 | 0.1% |
| Cash Vault | 51 | 1 in 4.13 | 70.4% | $500K · 3 | 2.5% |
| Back To The Future | 51 | 1 in 4.02 | 70.2% | $500K · 3 | 0.3% |
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.