Bonus Letter Crossword costs $5 a ticket from the Florida Lottery. By our estimate the $1,000,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,273,908 per ticket, down from 1 in 2,243,527. Its expected return of $0.74 per $1 runs $0.02 ahead of the typical $5 ticket in Florida. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 6% of prizes remain. It has been on sale since February 2024.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 2.2M at launch, about 1 in 1.3M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Odds of 1 in 4.00 put the win rate squarely in the normal range.
- $0.74 returned per dollar is roughly what most scratch-offs pay right now.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 1 in 2,241,660 | 10 | 1 | 10% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 400,296 | 56 | 1 | 2% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 7,525 | 2,979 | 100 | 3% |
| $500 | 1 in 4,990 | 4,492 | 126 | 3% |
| $200 | 1 in 1,197 | 18,722 | 492 | 3% |
| $100 | 1 in 316 | 70,909 | 2,080 | 3% |
| $50 | 1 in 1,001 | 22,384 | 628 | 3% |
| $40 | 1 in 650 | 34,504 | 874 | 3% |
| $30 | 1 in 100 | 224,034 | 6,364 | 3% |
| $20 | 1 in 60 | 373,567 | 11,585 | 3% |
| $15 | 1 in 60 | 373,653 | 11,924 | 3% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 2,241,679 | 90,748 | 4% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 2,241,828 | 193,554 | 9% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $1,000,000 top prize left on March 6, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for Florida's $5 games (0.5% 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
- Florida
- Game Number
- 1557
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 2/26/2024
- Payout %
- 73.7%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Florida
All 26 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pearls | 67 | 1 in 3.93 | 73.1% | $1M · 3 | 6.4% |
| GIANT BUCKS | 63 | 1 in 3.75 | 70.3% | $1M · 3 | 1.2% |
| 50X THE CASH | 57 | 1 in 3.81 | 71.1% | $1M · 7 | 0.5% |
| POWER 20X | 56 | 1 in 3.91 | 72.5% | $1M · 2 | 4.2% |
| Jeopardy! | 55 | 1 in 3.86 | 73.6% | $1M · 4 | 0.0% |
| America 250 Florida | 54 | 1 in 4.01 | 72.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.6% |
| The Price is Right™ | 48 | 1 in 4.00 | 72.8% | $1M · 4 | 0.1% |
| Silver & Gold Crossword | 47 | 1 in 3.89 | 70.4% | $500K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $1,000,000 Cash Stacks | 45 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.8% |
| Bonus Letter Crossword (this game) | 34 | 1 in 4.00 | 73.7% | $1M · 1 | 0.0% |
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.