Crossword SpectacularVirginia Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Crossword Spectacular costs $10 a ticket from the Virginia Lottery. By our estimate the $300,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 460,819 per ticket, down from 1 in 908,488. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.69 beat the 1 in 4.04 typical of Virginia's $10 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 908K at launch, about 1 in 461K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $300,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.72 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- Prize quality is fair, with some of the bigger winners already claimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| $300,000 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| $10,000 | 12 | 5 | 42% |
| $600 | 272 | 92 | 34% |
| $500 | 439 | 159 | 36% |
| $200 | 10,240 | 3,436 | 34% |
| $100 | 22,756 | 7,614 | 33% |
| $60 | 22,708 | 7,594 | 33% |
| $40 | 102,373 | 34,341 | 34% |
| $20 | 272,824 | 91,983 | 34% |
| $10 | 306,981 | 104,540 | 34% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $300,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 1.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for Virginia's $10 games (1.3% 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
- Virginia
- Game Number
- 2375
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 12/31/2025
- Payout %
- 72.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $10 ticket in Virginia
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold 7s | 72 | 1 in 3.90 | 72.9% | $578K · 2 | 3.4% |
| 20X THE MONEY | 68 | 1 in 3.65 | 71.7% | $1M · 3 | 0.9% |
| $500,000 Disco Dollars | 63 | 1 in 6.00 | 71.9% | $500K · 3 | 5.1% |
| BIG BANK PAYDAY | 62 | 1 in 3.99 | 72.8% | $500K · 1 | 2.6% |
| Crossword Spectacular (this game) | 61 | 1 in 3.69 | 72.3% | $300K · 2 | 1.2% |
| SIX FIGURES | 52 | 1 in 3.97 | 72.0% | $500K · 1 | 0.3% |
| BIG BILLS | 51 | 1 in 4.04 | 72.4% | $500K · 1 | 0.8% |
| Instant Cash | 47 | 1 in 5.25 | 73.3% | $500K · 1 | 1.4% |
| Power Payout Multiplier | 44 | 1 in 4.14 | 72.5% | $1M · 0 | 0.0% |
| CASH BLOWOUT | 44 | 1 in 9.35 | 72.1% | $500 · 2,341 | - |
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.