Tripling Bonus CrosswordCalifornia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The California Lottery sells Tripling Bonus Crossword as a $3 ticket. Top prizes have been claimed faster than tickets sold, so the $20,000 prize now runs about 1 in 1,662,508 by our estimate, against 1 in 1,201,283 at launch. No $3 ticket in California has better overall odds: 1 in 3.34, against 4 others at that price. Only 20% of its winning tickets pay $3 or less; the rest pay more than the ticket cost.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 1.2M at launch, about 1 in 1.7M now. The $20,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
- Roughly half the prize pool has been claimed, with a decent amount still left.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,000 | 1 in 1,200,000 | 20 | 6 | 30% |
| $3,000 | 1 in 585,366 | 41 | 18 | 44% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 210,526 | 114 | 47 | 41% |
| $300 | 1 in 57,971 | 414 | 162 | 39% |
| $150 | 1 in 10,874 | 2,207 | 884 | 40% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,439 | 16,682 | 6,642 | 40% |
| $60 | 1 in 1,099 | 21,836 | 8,460 | 39% |
| $50 | 1 in 362 | 66,210 | 26,063 | 39% |
| $30 | 1 in 302 | 79,439 | 31,005 | 39% |
| $20 | 1 in 166 | 144,799 | 57,989 | 40% |
| $15 | 1 in 125 | 191,260 | 76,036 | 40% |
| $12 | 1 in 101 | 238,434 | 96,037 | 40% |
| $10 | 1 in 62 | 386,290 | 155,139 | 40% |
| $5 | 1 in 12 | 1,968,740 | 803,319 | 41% |
| $4 | 1 in 9 | 2,636,828 | 1,088,382 | 41% |
| $3 Free ticket | 1 in 17 | 1,440,000 | 636,352 | 44% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on March 25, 14 $20,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 6. The most recent was on October 18.
- October 18, 20261 claimed · 6 left
- September 25, 20261 claimed · 7 left
- August 26, 20261 claimed · 8 left
- August 21, 20261 claimed · 9 left
- August 20, 20261 claimed · 10 left
- August 16, 20261 claimed · 11 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for California's $3 games (1.3% 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
- California
- Game Number
- 1720
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 3/23/2026
- Payout %
- 65.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $3 ticket in California
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15X | 55 | 1 in 3.78 | 66.6% | $30K · 26 | 2.7% |
| LOTERIA™ | 50 | 1 in 3.74 | 66.8% | $30K · 45 | 1.6% |
| Tripling Bonus Crossword (this game) | 36 | 1 in 3.34 | 65.5% | $20K · 6 | 1.4% |
| Fireball Bingo | 32 | 1 in 3.61 | 65.1% | $20K · 24 | 0.9% |
| 15X (Game #1684) | 24 | 1 in 3.78 | 66.7% | $30K · 2 | 0.1% |
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.