$1,000,000 CrosswordMaryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$1,000,000 Crossword costs $25 a ticket from the Maryland Lottery. Most of its wins only cover the ticket: 67% of winners pay $25 or less. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 34,485 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Expected value of $0.77 per $1 is above average. More of each dollar comes back as prizes than most games.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $100,000 | 10 | 5 | 50% |
| $20,000 | 50 | 25 | 50% |
| $2,000 | 1,178 | 587 | 50% |
| $500 | 5,180 | 2,525 | 49% |
| $300 | 17,282 | 8,248 | 48% |
| $100 | 36,848 | 17,751 | 48% |
| $50 | 194,173 | 93,494 | 48% |
| $25 | 525,154 | 254,606 | 48% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $1,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on June 5.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 | Our records begin | 3 |
| June 5 | 1 claimed | 2 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 2 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.9% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week. By tickets sold, it is the estimated #25 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 20,000 tickets 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
- Maryland
- Game Number
- 788
- Ticket Price
- $25
- Start Date
- 2/6/2026
- Payout %
- 77.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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