New Mexico · Best ValueScore™ Scratch-Offs
Last updated September 4, 2026
New Mexico's #1 scratch-off right now is Zoltar® Crossword with a ValueScore™ of 93/100. 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 New Mexico 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 | Zoltar® Crossword | $15 | 93 | 1 in 2.98 | $25,000 |
| 2 | Cash Games | $5 | 90 | 1 in 3.61 | $15,000 |
| 3 | LOTERIA™ Super Grande! | $5 | 87 | 1 in 3.81 | $50,000 |
| 4 | Sizzling Riches | $20 | 85 | 1 in 3.15 | $200,000 |
| 5 | Spicy Hot Riches | $5 | 83 | 1 in 3.66 | $20,000 |
| 6 | Double Your Luck | $10 | 82 | 1 in 3.54 | $10,000 |
| 7 | 100X | $20 | 78 | 1 in 3 | $100,000 |
| 8 | Legends of Lucha Libre® | $5 | 74 | 1 in 3.56 | $25,000 |
| 9 | Crossword Tripler | $3 | 74 | 1 in 3.89 | $30,000 |
| 10 | Cash Bonanza | $20 | 74 | 1 in 3.68 | $20,000 |
| 11 | Gold Rush | $10 | 72 | 1 in 3.44 | $10,000 |
| 12 | Triple Red 777s | $10 | 71 | 1 in 3.45 | $20,000 |
| 13 | Bonus Money | $10 | 71 | 1 in 3.4 | $10,000 |
| 14 | $10,000 Grande Crossword | $3 | 71 | 1 in 3.9 | $10,000 |
| 15 | MYSTERY CROSSWORD | $10 | 69 | 1 in 2.92 | $500 |
| 16 | Lucky Stars | $1 | 64 | 1 in 4.86 | $1,000 |
| 17 | Bingo Extra | $3 | 64 | 1 in 3.93 | $5,000 |
| 18 | $25,000 Grande | $5 | 62 | 1 in 3.79 | $25,000 |
| 19 | $5,000 Grande | $2 | 60 | 1 in 3.99 | $5,000 |
| 20 | $1,000 Grande | $1 | 58 | 1 in 4.85 | $1,000 |
| 21 | Betty Boop™ | $2 | 56 | 1 in 4.05 | $5,000 |
| 22 | Frogger | $3 | 55 | 1 in 3.89 | $5,000 |
| 23 | $25, $50 or $100! | $10 | 55 | 1 in 7.4 | $100 |
| 24 | Money Rush | $5 | 54 | 1 in 3.85 | $50,000 |
| 25 | Red Hot Double Doubler | $1 | 52 | 1 in 4.95 | $1,000 |
| 26 | Fast Cash | $2 | 52 | 1 in 3.99 | $500 |
| 27 | Crossword Deluxe | $5 | 51 | 1 in 3.85 | $5,000 |
| 28 | Hit $500 | $10 | 46 | 1 in 3.3 | $500 |
| 29 | Lucky 7s | $3 | 46 | 1 in 3.83 | $500 |
| 30 | Creepy Cash | $2 | 45 | 1 in 3.81 | $500 |
| 31 | The Return of the Pink Panther™ Crossword | $15 | 44 | 1 in 2.97 | $15,000 |
| 32 | Daily Crossword | $3 | 43 | 1 in 3.91 | $30,000 |
| 33 | Xtra Bonus | $1 | 42 | 1 in 4.88 | $1,000 |
| 34 | Merry Money | $1 | 42 | 1 in 3.93 | $20 |
| 35 | Hello Money | $10 | 41 | 1 in 3.45 | $20,000 |
| 36 | 777 | $2 | 41 | 1 in 3.99 | $7,000 |
| 37 | Lots of Cash | $5 | 41 | 1 in 3.86 | $10,000 |
| 38 | 7-11-21® Tripler | $2 | 40 | 1 in 4.04 | $2,100 |
| 39 | I Love Cash | $2 | 39 | 1 in 3.99 | $5,000 |
| 40 | Más Dinero | $10 | 35 | 1 in 3.3 | $5,000 |
| 41 | Fiery 5s | $5 | 31 | 1 in 3.83 | $5,000 |
| 42 | Hit $50 | $2 | 31 | 1 in 4.17 | $50 |
| 43 | Dinero Loco | $1 | 30 | 1 in 4.87 | $1,000 |
| 44 | Cool Cat | $1 | 30 | 1 in 4.73 | $500 |
| 45 | Merry Money 5X | $2 | 29 | 1 in 3.93 | $500 |
| 46 | Aces High | $1 | 26 | 1 in 4.95 | $500 |
| 47 | Lucky Numbers | $3 | 25 | 1 in 3.97 | $500 |
| 48 | Triple Tripler | $1 | 24 | 1 in 4.67 | $900 |
| 49 | Neon 7 | $5 | 22 | 1 in 3.83 | $700 |
| 50 | Great 8s | $1 | 22 | 1 in 4.74 | $500 |
| 51 | The Sky’s the Limit | $1 | 17 | 1 in 4.92 | $1,000 |
| 52 | 10X the Cash | $2 | 17 | 1 in 3.99 | $2,000 |
| 53 | Hit $200 | $5 | 16 | 1 in 3.93 | $200 |
| 54 | Tic Tac Multiplier | $1 | 14 | 1 in 4.93 | $1,000 |
| 55 | Bags of Money | $3 | 13 | 1 in 3.98 | $1,000 |
| 56 | Hit $25 | $1 | 11 | 1 in 4.92 | $25 |
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 New Mexico 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 New Mexico scrape, so a game listed at the top last week may have moved. See the national ValueScore ranking for cross-state context.