The New York Lottery sells BONUS 50X as a $10 ticket. Its expected return of $0.71 per $1 runs $0.02 ahead of the typical $10 ticket in New York. The $3,000,000 top prize is an annuity: $150,000 a year for 20 years.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 5.6M at launch, about 1 in 4.6M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $3,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
- At 1 in 3.92 overall odds, prizes land more often than in most games.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 9Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,000,000 ($150,000 a year for 20 years) | 1 in 5,620,863 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 3,211,921 | 7 | 2 | 29% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 1,873,621 | 12 | 2 | 17% |
| $2,500 | 1 in 899,338 | 25 | 2 | 8% |
| $500 | 1 in 3,744 | 6,005 | 1,198 | 20% |
| $200 | 1 in 1,598 | 14,067 | 2,793 | 20% |
| $100 | 1 in 106 | 211,350 | 41,971 | 20% |
| $50 | 1 in 29 | 786,962 | 155,588 | 20% |
| $40 | 1 in 29 | 786,797 | 157,001 | 20% |
| $20 | 1 in 20 | 1,124,255 | 226,351 | 20% |
| $10 | 1 in 8 | 2,810,554 | 596,714 | 21% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $3,000,000 top prize left on March 12, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.5% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to 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
- 1640
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 1/7/2025
- Payout %
- 71.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/9/2026
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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 | 68 | 1 in 3.99 | 69.4% | $3M · 1 | 1.1% |
| 100Xtra | 65 | 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 (this game) | 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% |
| $5,000 HOLIDAY FRENZY/$5,000 GOLD | 50 | 1 in 3.85 | 70.5% | $5K · 35 | 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.