Iowa · Best ValueScore™ Scratch-Offs
Last updated September 4, 2026
Iowa's #1 scratch-off right now is $300,000 Cashword with a ValueScore™ of 99/100. ValueScore™ combines expected value, prize quality, win frequency, and inventory health into a single 0 to 100 rating, updated daily.
Printed odds are set the day a game ships and never change, but the game itself does. Every week tickets sell and prizes get claimed, and the ticket can't tell you any of that. ValueScore™ re-scores every Iowa game from live prize data, so it knows when the top prizes are already gone from a game that still advertises great odds, and when a quiet game is sitting on all of its big prizes. Higher is better; details below the table.
| Rank | Game | Price | ValueScore™ | Overall Odds | Top Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300,000 Cashword | $30 | 99 | 1 in 2.28 | $300,000 |
| 2 | $300,000 JACKPOT | $30 | 95 | 1 in 2.29 | $300,000 |
| 3 | 50X The Cash | $10 | 93 | 1 in 2.84 | $100,000 |
| 4 | 100X The Cash | $20 | 92 | 1 in 2.88 | $250,000 |
| 5 | $100,000 Cash Bonus | $10 | 89 | 1 in 2.81 | $100,000 |
| 6 | Triple Jackpot | $10 | 85 | 1 in 3.2 | $100,000 |
| 7 | $100,000 Riches | $10 | 82 | 1 in 2.84 | $100,000 |
| 8 | The Price Is Right | $10 | 81 | 1 in 2.87 | $100,000 |
| 9 | MONOPOLY DOUBLER (Game #782) | $10 | 81 | 1 in 2.86 | $100,000 |
| 10 | $100,000 Mega Crossword | $10 | 81 | 1 in 3.29 | $100,000 |
| 11 | MONOPOLY DOUBLER (Game #783) | $20 | 81 | 1 in 2.9 | $250,000 |
| 12 | Diamond Dollars | $10 | 80 | 1 in 2.86 | $100,000 |
| 13 | Gem 7s | $20 | 79 | 1 in 2.52 | $150,000 |
| 14 | 200X THE WIN | $20 | 79 | 1 in 2.89 | $250,000 |
| 15 | Instant Jackpot | $10 | 71 | 1 in 3.25 | $100,000 |
| 16 | Green 7s | $5 | 70 | 1 in 3.7 | $50,000 |
| 17 | Fab 5s | $5 | 69 | 1 in 3.46 | $50,000 |
| 18 | Cash Frenzy | $10 | 69 | 1 in 3.24 | $100,000 |
| 19 | MONEY | $10 | 67 | 1 in 2.9 | $100,000 |
| 20 | 20X The Cash | $5 | 66 | 1 in 3.83 | $50,000 |
| 21 | Golden Riches | $10 | 64 | 1 in 3.15 | $100,000 |
| 22 | Blackout Bingo | $2 | 64 | 1 in 3.56 | $25,000 |
| 23 | Lucky 7 Bonus | $20 | 64 | 1 in 2.88 | $250,000 |
| 24 | Mega Bucks | $5 | 61 | 1 in 3.67 | $50,000 |
| 25 | 500X | $50 | 61 | 1 in 4.33 | $500,000 |
| 26 | X the Money | $10 | 57 | 1 in 2.86 | $100,000 |
| 27 | Cash Payout | $5 | 57 | 1 in 3.6 | $50,000 |
| 28 | One-Word Crossword | $3 | 57 | 1 in 3.82 | $30,000 |
| 29 | 10X The Cash | $2 | 57 | 1 in 3.54 | $10,000 |
| 30 | Bullseye Cash | $3 | 56 | 1 in 3.11 | $30,000 |
| 31 | Bonus Cash Doubler | $5 | 56 | 1 in 3.74 | $50,000 |
| 32 | $50,000 Jackpot | $5 | 56 | 1 in 3.4 | $50,000 |
| 33 | JURASSIC WORLD | $10 | 56 | 1 in 2.84 | $100,000 |
| 34 | IOWA™ BLACKOUT | $5 | 56 | 1 in 3.4 | $50,000 |
| 35 | 3 Ways To Win! | $2 | 54 | 1 in 3.59 | $10,000 |
| 36 | MONOPOLY DOUBLER (Game #781) | $5 | 53 | 1 in 3.72 | $50,000 |
| 37 | Lucky Clover Crossword | $5 | 52 | 1 in 3.83 | $50,000 |
| 38 | SCRABBLE™ Crossword Game | $10 | 52 | 1 in 3.2 | $100,000 |
| 39 | Pirate's Treasure | $3 | 51 | 1 in 3.51 | $30,000 |
| 40 | Silver Streak | $10 | 50 | 1 in 3.25 | $100,000 |
| 41 | Retro Bolts | $3 | 47 | 1 in 3.67 | $30,000 |
| 42 | $50,000 Super Crossword | $5 | 47 | 1 in 3.26 | $50,000 |
| 43 | MONOPOLY DOUBLER (Game #780) | $2 | 46 | 1 in 3.64 | $20,000 |
| 44 | PAC-MAN® | $5 | 45 | 1 in 3.46 | $50,000 |
| 45 | $30,000 Crossword | $3 | 45 | 1 in 3.52 | $30,000 |
| 46 | Win It All | $1 | 43 | 1 in 4.88 | $3,500 |
| 47 | $100 Stacked | $2 | 43 | 1 in 3.73 | $20,000 |
| 48 | UNO™ | $3 | 43 | 1 in 3.79 | $30,000 |
| 49 | Full of 300s | $3 | 42 | 1 in 3.57 | $300 |
| 50 | Scratch, Match & Win! | $5 | 42 | 1 in 3.65 | $50,000 |
| 51 | Money Rush | $5 | 41 | 1 in 3.61 | $50,000 |
| 52 | Fire 7s Ice 7s | $5 | 41 | 1 in 3.73 | $50,000 |
| 53 | Quick Cash | $5 | 40 | 1 in 3.67 | $50,000 |
| 54 | 5X The Cash | $1 | 40 | 1 in 4.59 | $5,000 |
| 55 | Joker's Wild | $5 | 40 | 1 in 3.6 | $50,000 |
| 56 | $50 Frenzy | $1 | 38 | 1 in 4.86 | $1,500 |
| 57 | Mega Money | $2 | 37 | 1 in 3.88 | $20,000 |
| 58 | Cool Cat | $2 | 37 | 1 in 3.64 | $10,000 |
| 59 | Super 7s | $2 | 36 | 1 in 3.93 | $17,777 |
| 60 | Unlock It | $3 | 36 | 1 in 3.51 | $3,000 |
| 61 | Word Games | $3 | 35 | 1 in 3.81 | $30,000 |
| 62 | Lucky Stars | $3 | 35 | 1 in 3.8 | $30,000 |
| 63 | Red Hot 7s | $3 | 34 | 1 in 3.51 | $30,000 |
| 64 | MONOPOLY DOUBLER | $1 | 34 | 1 in 4.81 | $5,000 |
| 65 | Wild Doubler | $2 | 33 | 1 in 3.83 | $10,000 |
| 66 | Words That Win | $3 | 33 | 1 in 3.8 | $30,000 |
| 67 | Xtra Bingo | $2 | 31 | 1 in 3.44 | $25,000 |
| 68 | Cash Blast | $2 | 30 | 1 in 3.65 | $20,000 |
| 69 | Lady Luck | $1 | 28 | 1 in 4.58 | $4,000 |
| 70 | Triple Luck | $1 | 28 | 1 in 4.57 | $6,000 |
| 71 | Triple It! | $1 | 20 | 1 in 4.5 | $900 |
| 72 | 777 | $2 | 17 | 1 in 3.94 | $10,000 |
How ValueScore is built
Most people judge a scratch off by two numbers: the overall odds printed on the ticket, and maybe how many prizes are left. Both are easy to read, and both mislead on their own. Overall odds only tell you how often any prize hits, and most of those are break-even reprints. A ticket can advertise 1 in 3 and still be a bad buy once the prizes worth winning are gone. Remaining-prize countshave the opposite blind spot: “400 prizes left” means nothing without the price, the odds, and how many of the top prizes are actually still in the pool.
ValueScore reads all of it at once and rates what those two numbers can’t see on their own. It blends the four signals that actually decide whether a ticket is worth buying, which is why our top pick in Iowa often looks nothing like the game with the flashiest odds:
- Expected Value (weighted most heavily). Published per-ticket return across the full prize structure, not just the headline odds.
- Prize Quality. How much of the payout sits in prizes worth winning versus tiny break-even reprints.
- Win Frequency. Your probability of any prize per ticket.
- Inventory Health. Top prizes still unclaimed versus tickets remaining. This is the one the ticket can’t show you: a game with great printed odds whose jackpots are already gone. (Exact weighting is proprietary.)
Scores recompute after every successful Iowa scrape, so a game listed at the top last week may have moved. See the national ValueScore ranking for cross-state context.