Deluxe CrosswordMaryland Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The Maryland Lottery sells Deluxe Crossword as a $5 ticket. At a ValueScore of 68/100 (Good), it is the best $5 game on sale in Maryland. No $5 ticket in Maryland has better overall odds: 1 in 3.45, against 22 others at that price.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 486K at launch, about 1 in 548K now. The $50,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- Prize quality is high: most of the meaningful top and mid-tier prizes remain in play.
- At 1 in 3.45 overall odds, prizes land more often than in most games.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated November 7Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | 8 | 6 | 75% |
| $10,000 | 13 | 11 | 85% |
| $1,000 | 44 | 39 | 89% |
| $150 | 1,308 | 1,119 | 86% |
| $100 | 2,299 | 1,944 | 85% |
| $90 | 4,834 | 4,093 | 85% |
| $75 | 8,060 | 6,829 | 85% |
| $50 | 11,583 | 9,783 | 84% |
| $30 | 64,838 | 54,820 | 85% |
| $20 | 76,140 | 64,471 | 85% |
| $15 | 122,345 | 103,477 | 85% |
| $10 | 359,991 | 304,810 | 85% |
| $5 | 474,507 | 401,797 | 85% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on September 20, 2 $50,000 top prizes have been reported claimed, leaving 6. The most recent was on October 25.
| Date | What happened | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|
| September 20 | Launched | 8 |
| October 8 | 1 claimed | 7 |
| October 25 | 1 claimed | 6 |
| November 7 | Latest count | 6 |
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 2.1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for Maryland's $5 games (0.7% a week). By tickets sold, it is the estimated #6 best seller of the 80 Maryland tickets we can rank, at about 83,000 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
- 816
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 9/18/2026
- Payout %
- 71.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 11/7/2026
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Every $5 ticket in Maryland
All 23 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Crossword (this game) | 68 | 1 in 3.45 | 71.5% | $50K · 6 | 2.1% |
| Holly-Day Cash | 66 | 1 in 3.92 | 72.0% | $50K · 7 | 4.4% |
| The Price is Right™ | 57 | 1 in 3.56 | 72.0% | $50K · 4 | 2.4% |
| Gold Bar Bingo | 57 | 1 in 3.75 | 72.4% | $50K · 5 | 1.1% |
| Hello Money! | 52 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.0% | $50K · 5 | 3.4% |
| In the Green | 45 | 1 in 3.87 | 71.4% | $50K · 4 | 1.9% |
| Winning Streak | 45 | 1 in 3.78 | 72.0% | $50K · 2 | 0.3% |
| Cash Blast | 43 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.1% | $50K · 4 | 0.1% |
| Multiply Your Money | 42 | 1 in 3.88 | 72.0% | $50K · 3 | 1.5% |
| Gold Bar Bingo (Game #756) | 40 | 1 in 3.76 | 72.5% | $50K · 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.