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Strong valueActiveCash Surge · $10 · Michigan Lottery
Cash Surge: Strong value. A $10 ticket pays back $8.01 on average.
▲ +3.6 pts vs launch#3 of 30 · $10 MI games
▲ +3.6 pts vs launch#3 of 30 · $10 MI games
Cash Surge is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the Michigan state lottery. Its current expected value is 80.1%, up 3.6 percentage points from the launch value of 76.5%. 2 of the original 3 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 61% of the 6.0M printed tickets have been sold.
80.1%
expected return
1 in 3.85
odds of any win
2 of 3
$1M jackpots left
61%
claimed · 3.7M of 6M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 601,258 winning tickets still unclaimed.
16 win more than $10
$20 – $200, an actual profit
10 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
74 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 1,292 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $8.01 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.96 · 69.6% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.19 · 1.9% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.86 · 8.6% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
71.5%
Just 2 tickets out of 2.3M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
600,860 winning tickets remain in this range: 87% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
61% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Mar 2026.
6M
tickets printed
3.7M
tickets claimed · 61%
2.3M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
67%
Tickets left
39%
67% of top prizes remain with only 39% 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
#3 of 30
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Michigan Lottery published claim data.
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