NEON 9s CROSSWORD — $5 Indiana Scratch-Off #2542
As of October 14, 2026, NEON 9s CROSSWORD ($5, #2542) still has 3 of 10 $100,000 top prizes unclaimed (30% of those printed). It is #58 of 66 Indiana scratch-offs on our list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the share of their top prizes still unclaimed, then by the better overall odds). Indiana prints its overall odds as 1 in 3.70.
Indiana marks this game as reordered: more tickets were printed to meet demand, which adds prizes as well as tickets without changing the overall chances. A count here can go up, not only down.
No payout figure, on purpose. Indiana publishes only the upper prize levels of each game, with how many were printed and how many are left. A payout, an expected value or the odds today each need every prize level and how many were printed, so for Indiana we show exactly what its lottery publishes and compute nothing from it. A figure built from part of a table would be wrong, not rough: it is how one state's partial table produced games that appeared to pay back more than they cost. How we treat partial prize tables.
Prizes remaining, as Indiana publishes them
This is a partial prize table. Indiana publishes the top nine prize levels of NEON 9s CROSSWORD and how many of each were printed and are left. The levels below are not published, so they are not here. Nothing in this table is an estimate. For the complete prize structure see the game's page on the Indiana Lottery site.
| Prize | Remaining | Printed | Claimed |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100,000 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| $2,500 | 68 | 240 | 172 |
| $500 | 324 | 1,211 | 887 |
| $300 | 634 | 2,413 | 1,779 |
| $250 | 932 | 3,598 | 2,666 |
| $150 | 1,283 | 4,864 | 3,581 |
| $100 | 6,302 | 24,202 | 17,900 |
| $50 | 26,223 | 100,016 | 73,793 |
| $30 | 22,849 | 84,883 | 62,034 |
NEON 9s CROSSWORD: common questions
- How many $100,000 top prizes are left in NEON 9s CROSSWORD?
- 3 of the 10 printed, as of October 14, 2026.
- What are the odds of winning on NEON 9s CROSSWORD?
- Indiana prints overall odds of 1 in 3.70 for NEON 9s CROSSWORD: the chance a ticket wins any prize at all, fixed when the game was printed. It does not publish the odds of each prize level, so we do not show any.
- Is NEON 9s CROSSWORD a good scratch-off to buy?
- We cannot price it. Indiana publishes only the upper prize levels of each game, with how many were printed and how many are left, and a value needs the whole table. What the figures do say is that its top prize is still in play (3 of 10 left).
- How does NEON 9s CROSSWORD compare with other $5 Indiana scratch-offs?
- 17 of the 18 $5 games Indiana lists still have a top prize unclaimed. NEON 9s CROSSWORD is #58 of 66 on our Indiana list (games with a top prize still unclaimed first, by the share of their top prizes still unclaimed, then by the better overall odds).
- Where do these numbers come from?
- From the Indiana Lottery's own prize figures, read daily. We show its upper prize levels as published and calculate nothing from them.
Other $5 Indiana scratch-offs
- $20, $50 OR $100 — top prize $100, 12,174 of 13,396 left, overall odds 1 in 7.30
- CASH VAULT — top prize $100,000, 2 of 3 left, overall odds 1 in 3.81
- WILD CHERRY — top prize $100,000, 2 of 3 left, overall odds 1 in 3.85
- WILD MULTIPLIER — top prize $75,000, 2 of 3 left, overall odds 1 in 3.88
- RUBY 7s — top prize $77,000, 2 of 3 left, overall odds 1 in 3.90