Winning Words — $3 Vermont Instant Ticket #1801
As of October 14, 2026, Winning Words ($3, #1801) still has 1 $5,000 top prize unclaimed. Vermont prints its overall odds as 1 in 3.84.
No payout figure, on purpose. Vermont publishes only the top prize levels of each game, and how many of each are left, but not how many were printed. A payout, an expected value or the odds today each need every prize level and how many were printed, so for Vermont 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 Vermont publishes them
This is a partial prize table. Vermont publishes the top two prize levels of Winning Words and how many of each 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 Vermont Lottery site.
| Prize | Remaining |
|---|---|
| $5,000 | 1 |
| $1,000 | 1 |
Winning Words: common questions
- How many $5,000 top prizes are left in Winning Words?
- 1, as of October 14, 2026. Vermont does not publish how many were printed.
- What are the odds of winning on Winning Words?
- Vermont prints overall odds of 1 in 3.84 for Winning Words: 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 Winning Words a good instant ticket to buy?
- We cannot price it. Vermont publishes only the top prize levels of each game, and how many of each are left, but not how many were printed, and a value needs the whole table. What the figures do say is that its top prize is still in play (1 left).
- How does Winning Words compare with other $3 Vermont instant tickets?
- 2 of the 3 $3 games Vermont lists still have a top prize unclaimed.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- From the Vermont Lottery's own prize figures, read daily. We show its top prize levels as published and calculate nothing from them.
Other $3 Vermont instant tickets
- Bonus Word Cashword! — top prize $10,000, 2 left, overall odds 1 in 3.96
- Bingo X20 — top prize $5,000, 6 left, overall odds 1 in 3.83
- Wild Bingo — top prize $5,000, none left, overall odds 1 in 3.83