Bonus CrosswordMaryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Bonus Crossword costs $3 a ticket from the Maryland Lottery. The $30,000 prize now runs about 1 in 510,698 by our estimate, worse than 1 in 410,847 at launch. No $3 ticket in Maryland has better overall odds: 1 in 3.66, against 8 others at that price.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 411K at launch, about 1 in 511K now. The $30,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- A reasonable chunk of the top and mid-tier prizes are still available, though not the majority.
- This game is partway played through, with a fair share of prizes remaining.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | 8 | 3 | 38% |
| $5,000 | 20 | 11 | 55% |
| $1,000 | 28 | 9 | 32% |
| $100 | 8,821 | 4,011 | 45% |
| $25 | 54,908 | 24,765 | 45% |
| $10 | 137,886 | 62,651 | 45% |
| $5 | 287,155 | 132,329 | 46% |
| $3 | 409,199 | 194,826 | 48% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, 5 $30,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 3. The most recent was on September 12.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| March 6 | Our records begin | 8 |
| May 14 | 2 claimed | 6 |
| May 21 | 1 claimed | 5 |
| August 6 | 1 claimed | 4 |
| September 12 | 1 claimed | 3 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 3 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.7% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about twice the average for Maryland's $3 games (0.3% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #22 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 24,000 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
- 784
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 2/6/2026
- Payout %
- 67.6%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $3 ticket in Maryland
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppermint Payout | 54 | 1 in 3.94 | 67.9% | $30K · 6 | 3.0% |
| Diamond Bingo | 47 | 1 in 3.76 | 67.6% | $30K · 5 | 1.4% |
| Ms.PAC-MAN™ | 44 | 1 in 3.92 | 67.6% | $30K · 4 | 0.3% |
| Bonus Crossword (this game) | 39 | 1 in 3.66 | 67.6% | $30K · 3 | 0.7% |
| Diamond Bingo (Game #749) | 39 | 1 in 3.77 | 67.6% | $30K · 4 | 0.0% |
| PRESS YOUR LUCK® | 36 | 1 in 4.01 | 67.3% | $30K · 3 | 0.0% |
| Candy Cane Cash | 26 | 1 in 3.96 | 68.2% | $30K · 2 | 0.0% |
| Loteria™ | 20 | 1 in 3.86 | 67.6% | $30K · 2 | 0.0% |
| SKEE-BALL® | 20 | 1 in 4.09 | 67.6% | $15K · 1 | 0.2% |
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.