BONUS BUCKSNew York Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
BONUS BUCKS costs $10 a ticket from the New York Lottery. With a ValueScore of 75/100 (Good), it is the strongest of New York's 16 $10 tickets. The $3,000,000 top prize is an annuity: $150,000 a year for 20 years.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- The game is early in its life, with the bulk of its prizes unclaimed.
- Expected value of $0.69 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,000,000 ($150,000 a year for 20 years) | 1 in 5,902,483 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 1,770,745 | 10 | 7 | 70% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 1,180,497 | 15 | 8 | 53% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,202 | 14,731 | 9,067 | 62% |
| $200 | 1 in 480 | 36,909 | 22,694 | 61% |
| $100 | 1 in 128 | 138,096 | 85,099 | 62% |
| $50 | 1 in 120 | 147,608 | 90,971 | 62% |
| $40 | 1 in 50 | 354,085 | 218,438 | 62% |
| $30 | 1 in 33 | 531,287 | 328,227 | 62% |
| $20 | 1 in 13 | 1,416,597 | 876,270 | 62% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 1,947,883 | 1,209,227 | 62% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $3,000,000 top prizes left on March 12, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than 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
- 1660
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 7/1/2025
- 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 (this game) | 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 | 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.