Phoenix CrosswordOregon Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Phoenix Crossword costs $20 a ticket from the Oregon Lottery. By our estimate the $175,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 159,638 per ticket, down from 1 in 247,215. No $20 ticket in Oregon has better overall odds: 1 in 2.74, against 6 others at that price. 51% of its winning tickets pay $20 or less, no more than the ticket cost.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 247K at launch, about 1 in 160K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $175,000 prizes have been claimed.
- $0.73 returned per dollar is roughly what most scratch-offs pay right now.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $175,000 | 1 in 250,000 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 200,000 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 9,009 | 82 | 20 | 24% |
| $500 | 1 in 714 | 1,039 | 203 | 20% |
| $200 | 1 in 181 | 4,093 | 802 | 20% |
| $150 | 1 in 144 | 5,133 | 1,026 | 20% |
| $100 | 1 in 60 | 12,373 | 2,462 | 20% |
| $80 | 1 in 451 | 1,644 | 322 | 20% |
| $75 | 1 in 358 | 2,069 | 407 | 20% |
| $60 | 1 in 144 | 5,153 | 1,053 | 20% |
| $50 | 1 in 44 | 16,696 | 3,408 | 20% |
| $30 | 1 in 9 | 83,381 | 17,497 | 21% |
| $20 | 1 in 5 | 139,003 | 31,060 | 22% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $175,000 top prize left on March 7, 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, slower than the average for Oregon's $20 games (1.1% 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
- Oregon
- Game Number
- 1576
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 5/8/2025
- Payout %
- 72.7%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $20 ticket in Oregon
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash Money | 94 | 1 in 3.57 | 73.5% | $100K · 2 | 1.1% |
| One Word Crossword | 90 | 1 in 2.77 | 72.1% | $125K · 3 | 2.0% |
| Winter Wonderland | 89 | 1 in 3.33 | 71.2% | $100K · 2 | 1.9% |
| Phoenix Crossword (this game) | 67 | 1 in 2.74 | 72.7% | $175K · 1 | 0.5% |
| Mega 50X Multiplier | 60 | 1 in 3.31 | 71.7% | $120K · 1 | 1.0% |
| Diamond White 7s | 56 | 1 in 2.82 | 72.1% | $150K · 0 | 0.1% |
| $100 Or $200 Limited | 15 | 1 in 8.75 | - | $200 · 3,701 | - |
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.