$10,000 Grande CrosswordNew Mexico Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$10,000 Grande Crossword costs $3 a ticket from the New Mexico Lottery. By our estimate the $10,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 111,936 per ticket, down from 1 in 165,612. Its expected return of $0.62 per $1 runs $0.02 ahead of the typical $3 ticket in New Mexico.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 166K at launch, about 1 in 112K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $10,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Middling prize quality: a fair number of the bigger prizes are still in play.
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | 1 in 165,400 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 49,620 | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,969 | 252 | 103 | 41% |
| $50 | 1 in 493 | 1,007 | 389 | 39% |
| $30 | 1 in 239 | 2,072 | 796 | 38% |
| $20 | 1 in 100 | 4,962 | 1,927 | 39% |
| $15 | 1 in 50 | 9,924 | 3,935 | 40% |
| $10 | 1 in 33 | 14,886 | 6,071 | 41% |
| $5 | 1 in 14 | 34,734 | 14,900 | 43% |
| $3 | 1 in 8 | 59,544 | 29,277 | 49% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since its launch on July 8, one $10,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 2. The most recent was on July 17.
- July 17, 20261 claimed · 2 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 3.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about 3 times the average for New Mexico's $3 games (1.2% 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
- New Mexico
- Game Number
- 689
- Ticket Price
- $3
- Start Date
- 7/7/2026
- Payout %
- 62.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $3 ticket in New Mexico
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Pawlidays! | 77 | 1 in 3.93 | 61.1% | $1K · 3 | - |
| Crossword Tripler | 71 | 1 in 3.89 | 61.7% | $30K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $10,000 Grande Crossword (this game) | 64 | 1 in 3.90 | 62.3% | $10K · 2 | 3.3% |
| Bingo Extra | 59 | 1 in 3.93 | 60.2% | $5K · 2 | 1.5% |
| Frogger | 47 | 1 in 3.89 | 56.8% | $5K · 2 | 4.3% |
| Lucky 7s | 46 | 1 in 3.83 | 63.1% | $500 · 1 | 0.0% |
| Lucky Numbers | 24 | 1 in 3.97 | 57.6% | $500 · 2 | 0.1% |
| Bags of Money | 13 | 1 in 3.98 | 56.4% | $1K · 0 | 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.