$3,000,000 BONUS STARSNew York Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The New York Lottery sells $3,000,000 BONUS STARS as a $10 ticket. The $3,000,000 top prize is an annuity: $250,000 a year for 12 years. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 5,872,812 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have worsened: 1 in 5.9M at launch, about 1 in 8.9M now. The $3,000,000 prizes are being claimed faster than tickets sell.
- $0.69 returned per dollar is roughly what most scratch-offs pay right now.
- Frequent winners: roughly a 25% shot at a prize on each ticket (1 in 3.99), ahead of most games.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,000,000 ($250,000 a year for 12 years) | 1 in 5,878,683 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 2,204,506 | 8 | 4 | 50% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 1,469,671 | 12 | 5 | 42% |
| $500 | 1 in 751 | 23,496 | 11,683 | 50% |
| $200 | 1 in 369 | 47,748 | 23,844 | 50% |
| $100 | 1 in 125 | 141,174 | 70,389 | 50% |
| $50 | 1 in 120 | 146,837 | 73,364 | 50% |
| $40 | 1 in 100 | 176,463 | 88,305 | 50% |
| $30 | 1 in 33 | 529,056 | 265,105 | 50% |
| $20 | 1 in 13 | 1,410,959 | 708,040 | 50% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 1,939,892 | 983,577 | 51% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since July 20, when our records for it began, one $3,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on August 31.
- August 31, 20261 claimed · 1 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, about twice the average for New York's $10 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
- New York
- Game Number
- 1688
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 3/3/2026
- Payout %
- 69.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 16 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BONUS BUCKS | 75 | 1 in 3.86 | 69.4% | $3M · 2 | 0.2% |
| $3,000,000 MAX MULTIPLIER | 74 | 1 in 4.27 | 69.3% | $3M · 2 | 0.8% |
| $3,000,000 BONUS STARS (this game) | 67 | 1 in 3.99 | 69.4% | $3M · 1 | 1.0% |
| 100Xtra | 64 | 1 in 3.91 | 69.5% | $3M · 3 | 1.1% |
| $1,000,000 50X CASHWORD | 63 | 1 in 4.32 | 65.0% | $1M · 3 | 1.8% |
| BONUS 50X | 57 | 1 in 3.92 | 71.4% | $3M · 1 | 0.5% |
| MONEY MATCH | 55 | 1 in 4.01 | 69.5% | $3M · 1 | 0.5% |
| SET FOR LIFE | 53 | 1 in 3.95 | 73.8% | $5M · 2 | 1.1% |
| $3,000,000 CA$H | 52 | 1 in 4.02 | 70.5% | $3M · 0 | 0.0% |
| $3,000,000 MAX | 50 | 1 in 4.01 | 69.6% | $3M · 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.