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Decent valueActiveSilver & Gold Cashword · $10 · Michigan Lottery
Silver & Gold Cashword: Decent value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.56 on average.
▲ +0.0 pts vs launch#24 of 30 · $10 MI games
▲ +0.0 pts vs launch#24 of 30 · $10 MI games
Silver & Gold Cashword is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the Michigan state lottery. Its current expected value is 75.6%, up 0.0 percentage points from the launch value of 75.6%. 3 of the original 3 $500,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 2% of the 7.1M printed tickets have been sold.
75.6%
expected return
1 in 3.47
odds of any win
3 of 3
$500K top prizes left
2%
claimed · 161k of 7.1M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 2,005,299 winning tickets still unclaimed.
20 win more than $10
$20 – $200, an actual profit
8 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
72 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 257,710 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.56 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $999
$7.34 · 73.4% of price
Mid prizes $500K
$0.22 · 2.2% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $999 wins
2,005,296 winning tickets remain in this range: 97% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
2% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Sep 2026.
7.1M
tickets printed
161k
tickets claimed · 2%
7M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
100%
Tickets left
98%
100% of top prizes remain with only 98% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Michigan Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $10 MI peers
#24 of 30
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Michigan Lottery published claim data.
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