How many $750,000 prizes are left in Mystery Crossword?

4 of 80 as of September 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 1,086,324.

What are the odds of winning anything on Mystery Crossword?

1 in 3.02 today, compared with 1 in 3.33 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 7.93, and the odds of winning more than the $10 ticket price are 1 in 8.11.

Is Mystery Crossword worth buying?

Its current payout is 79.5% ($7.95 back per $10 ticket), rank #— of 58 in California. The best $10 alternative today is Set For Life (#1748, $10) at 78.6%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.

How many Mystery Crossword tickets are left?

We estimate 4,345,294 of roughly 94,425,600 printed tickets are unsold (98.9% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.

When did Mystery Crossword launch and is it still on sale?

We first saw it on December 30, 2024. It has ended.

Mystery Crossword — $10 California Scratcher #1598

Final figures from June 16, 2025 · ended

Mystery Crossword California scratcher ticket

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Mystery Crossword (#1598) was a $10 California scratcher. Its final figures, from June 16, 2025, were 79.5% payout ($7.95 expected back per ticket), 1 in 3.02 for any prize and 1 in 1,086,324 for the top prize. Since launch the payout has risen 1.2 points (78.4% at launch) and your chance of winning something has risen 10.1% (1 in 3.33 at launch). 4 of 80 top prizes of $750,000 were never claimed, and we estimate 98.9% of its tickets had sold. Mystery Crossword is no longer on sale in California; the figures below are final as of June 16, 2025.

Current payout

79.5%

78.4% at launch

Expected value

$7.95

per $10 ticket

Any-prize odds

1 in 3.02

1 in 3.33 at launch

Cash odds

1 in 7.93

excludes free tickets

Profit odds

1 in 8.11

win more than $10

$600+ odds

1 in 7,031

claim-at-lottery prizes

Top prizes left

4 of 80

$750,000 each

Tickets remaining

1.1%

≈ 4,345,294 tickets

Prizes remaining

Every prize level in Mystery Crossword, with the odds printed at launch, the odds today given what is left, and how much of each tier is still unclaimed. Across all tiers, 1,437,449 of 28,372,128 prizes (5.1%) are still out there.

Prize	Odds at launch	Odds now	Total	Claimed	Remaining	% left
$750,000	1 in 1,250,000	1 in 1,086,324	80	76	4	5.0%
$10,000	1 in 588,235	1 in 1,448,431	165	162	3	1.8%
$4,000	1 in 400,000	1 in 395,027	248	237	11	4.4%
$2,000	1 in 400,000	1 in 271,581	249	233	16	6.4%
$1,000	1 in 7,930	1 in 7,441	12,403	11,819	584	4.7%
$400	1 in 4,773	1 in 4,888	20,602	19,713	889	4.3%
$200	1 in 530.0	1 in 545.5	185,692	177,726	7,966	4.3%
$100	1 in 49.0	1 in 54.1	1,995,900	1,915,589	80,311	4.0%
$60	1 in 100.0	1 in 104.6	983,963	942,437	41,526	4.2%
$40	1 in 63.0	1 in 67.1	1,566,426	1,501,627	64,799	4.1%
$20	1 in 12.0	1 in 12.8	7,868,800	7,529,017	339,783	4.3%
Ticketfree ticket	1 in 6.00	1 in 4.82	15,737,600	14,836,043	901,557	5.7%
All prizes	1 in 3.33	1 in 3.02	28,372,128	26,934,679	1,437,449	5.1%

How Mystery Crossword has moved

Current payout (solid) and any-prize odds (dashed, inverted so up is better) since we began tracking Mystery Crossword. 121 daily readings.

Recent claims of $1,000 and up

June 14, 2025: one $2,000 prize was claimed; 16 remain.
June 14, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 584 remain.
June 12, 2025: one $4,000 prize was claimed; 11 remain.
June 11, 2025: one $4,000 prize was claimed; 12 remain.
June 11, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 585 remain.
June 10, 2025: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 586 remain.
June 7, 2025: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 588 remain.
June 6, 2025: one $1,000 prize was claimed; 590 remain.
June 4, 2025: 4 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 591 remain.
May 31, 2025: 2 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 595 remain.
May 30, 2025: 5 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 597 remain.
May 29, 2025: 3 $1,000 prizes were claimed; 602 remain.

Derived from day-to-day changes in the official remaining-prize counts, so the date is when the lottery published the change.

Mystery Crossword: common questions

How many $750,000 prizes are left in Mystery Crossword?: 4 of 80 as of September 25, 2026. The chance that a ticket bought today is a top-prize winner is about 1 in 1,086,324.
What are the odds of winning anything on Mystery Crossword?: 1 in 3.02 today, compared with 1 in 3.33 printed at launch. Cash-only odds are 1 in 7.93, and the odds of winning more than the $10 ticket price are 1 in 8.11.
Is Mystery Crossword worth buying?: Its current payout is 79.5% ($7.95 back per $10 ticket), rank #— of 58 in California. The best $10 alternative today is Set For Life (#1748, $10) at 78.6%. No scratcher has a positive expected value; this is about losing less over time.
How many Mystery Crossword tickets are left?: We estimate 4,345,294 of roughly 94,425,600 printed tickets are unsold (98.9% sold), derived from the prizes claimed at each tier and their published odds.
When did Mystery Crossword launch and is it still on sale?: We first saw it on December 30, 2024. It has ended.

Other $10 California scratchers

Set For Life — 78.6% payout, 1 in 3.78 any prize
LOTERIA™ Grande — 76.8% payout, 1 in 3.65 any prize
Mystery Crossword — 76.1% payout, 1 in 3.54 any prize
California Jackpot — 74.5% payout, 1 in 3.36 any prize
$1,000,000 Poker — 73.9% payout, 1 in 3.51 any prize

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