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Weak valueActiveSpicy Hot Riches · $5 · New Mexico Lottery
Spicy Hot Riches: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.04 on average.
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#4 of 11 · $5 NM games
▲ +0.2 pts vs launch#4 of 11 · $5 NM games
Spicy Hot Riches is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the New Mexico state lottery. Its current expected value is 60.8%, up 0.2 percentage points from the launch value of 60.6%. 3 of the original 3 $20000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 6% of the 0.5M printed tickets have been sold.
60.8%
expected return
1 in 3.66
odds of any win
3 of 3
$20K top prizes left
6%
claimed · 30k of 496k printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 127,458 winning tickets still unclaimed.
16 win more than $5
$10 – $100, an actual profit
12 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
72 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 11,953 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.04 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$2.89 · 57.9% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $20K
$0.15 · 2.9% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
127,447 winning tickets remain in this range: 95% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
6% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Aug 2026.
496k
tickets printed
30k
tickets claimed · 6%
466k
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
94%
100% of top prizes remain with only 94% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
New Mexico Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 NM peers
#4 of 11
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from New Mexico Lottery published claim data.
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