$500,000 CROSSWORD scratch-off ticket

Wisconsin · Game #2812

$500,000 CROSSWORD

$30per ticket

Sale status unknown · Collected Oct 25, 2026, 12:58 AM CDT

The source does not confirm that tickets are currently on sale. Unclaimed prizes do not establish ticket availability.

Official lottery data Top prizes unclaimed: 2

Published site dataSite data published Oct 25, 2026

Game summary

What to know about this ticket

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Estimate confidence: Unknown — a reliability rating, not your chance of winning.

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PrizeGauge estimate

Estimated average payout

Unavailable

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

What does this mean?
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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Return compared with ticket price

Unavailable

A minus sign means the estimated average payout is below the ticket cost. It does not predict the result of one ticket.

PrizeGauge estimate

Chance of Any Prize

Unavailable

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

What does this mean?
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

PrizeGauge estimate

Chance of coming out ahead

Unavailable

A supported estimate of prizes worth more than the ticket price was not published.

PrizeGauge estimate

Payout without the jackpot

Unavailable

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

Return vs. ticket price, without the jackpot: Unavailable

What does this mean?
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.

Why we can’t show it: The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

Official lottery data

Top prize

$500,000!

2 still unclaimed in the lottery data.

No changevs Oct 24, 2026
What does this mean?
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
PrizeGauge estimate

Chance of the top prize

Unavailable

We don’t have enough data to estimate today’s top-prize odds.

Remaining prizes and tickets

What’s left in this game

See reported prize amounts ↓
Calculated from lottery data

Prizes listed unclaimed

Unavailable

Reported prize amounts only. This is not the full current prize pool.

Out of 150,877 prizes in the source table.

Counts include tickets already sold whose prizes haven’t been claimed.

Official lottery data

Top prizes left

2

Out of 2 top prizes originally.

100.0% left0 no longer remaining

No changevs Oct 24, 2026

From the lottery report for this game.

PrizeGauge estimate

Estimated tickets left

Unavailable

467,719 tickets estimated at the start.

Tickets left are an estimate. Unclaimed prizes don’t tell us exactly how many tickets are still for sale.

First on sale
Oct 23, 2026

We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →

Original vs. current

Original and current numbers

See the original numbers next to what we estimate for the tickets left.

How we work out the original chance of coming out ahead

We count only original prizes worth more than the ticket price. Getting your money back does not count.

PrizeGauge estimate

This uses an original batch of 467,719 tickets, based on an estimate.

The original ticket population is estimated or approximate.

Original records: Source 1 · Source 2

Odds of any prize

Original at launch
1 in 3.132.3% chance · Lottery-published
Latest estimate
UnavailableCurrent estimate unavailable

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

Average prize payout

Original at launch
$22.13Per ticket · Estimate using original data
Latest estimate
UnavailablePer ticket · PrizeGauge estimate

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

Return compared with ticket price

Original at launch
-26.2%Original estimate · compared with ticket price
Latest estimate
UnavailablePrizeGauge estimate

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

Chance of coming out ahead

Original at launch
12.6%Original estimate · excludes break-even prizes
Latest estimate
UnavailablePrizeGauge estimate · excludes break-even prizes

Change unavailable — both values are needed.

Top prizes

Original at launch
2Published original count
Latest estimate
2Published unclaimed count · may include sold tickets

Counts describe prizes, not the chance of winning.

A smaller “1 in” number means a higher chance. Any prize includes prizes that only return the ticket cost. Original odds may be rounded; current values are estimates, not guaranteed outcomes.

Compare the price and average payouts

Here’s how the ticket price compares with the average prize payout we estimate. Your ticket could pay more, less, or nothing.

Ticket costs
$30.00
Estimated average payout
Unavailable
Without the top prize
Unavailable
What do these numbers mean?
Official lottery data

Published by the lottery.

Calculated from lottery data

Worked out from the lottery’s own numbers.

PrizeGauge estimate

Our best estimate, using data and assumptions we explain.

Average payout
Think of a big pile of tickets: this is the prize money per ticket on average. It doesn’t tell you what your next ticket will pay.
Return vs. ticket price
How the estimated average payout stacks up against what you spend. A minus sign means the average payout is less than the ticket price.
Payout without the jackpot
Big jackpots can make a ticket's average look much better even though winning one is extremely unlikely. This number shows its estimated value if the biggest prize pays $0.
Chance of Any Prize
This estimates the chance that a remaining ticket has any published prize. A winning ticket may only break even, so this is not your chance of making money.
Chance of coming out ahead
The estimated chance of a prize worth more than the ticket price. Getting your ticket cost back does not count.
Top Prizes Left
How many of the game's biggest prizes the lottery says are still unclaimed. This does not establish whether tickets are still for sale.
Estimated Tickets Left
Our estimate of how many tickets may remain. The lottery does not publish this exact number, and sold but unclaimed tickets can affect it.
How reliable is the estimate?
How much trust to put in the estimate. It is not your chance of winning. Unknown means we don’t have a rating.
What does this mean?
Each ticket is a gamble. Better-looking numbers don’t promise a winning ticket.

Prize-by-prize estimates

Estimated odds for each prize

The chance of each prize for the tickets estimated to remain. These are estimates, not the lottery’s original odds.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

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Estimated odds and prize counts for $500,000 CROSSWORD
PrizeEstimated oddsPrizes leftChance
$30Unavailable——
$50Unavailable——
$100Unavailable——
$150Unavailable——
$250Unavailable——
$500Unavailable——
$1,000Unavailable——
$25,000Unavailable——
$500,000Unavailable2—

These odds use estimated tickets left. Some prize counts are estimated too. A winning ticket may already have been sold but not claimed. Swipe the table to see every column on a phone.

Unclaimed prizes by prize amount

These bars show the share of original prizes still unclaimed. They are not your chance of winning. Some unclaimed prizes may already be on sold tickets.

$30

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 92,000 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$50

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 25,323 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$100

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 7,015 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$150

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 20,999 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$250

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 5,428 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$500

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 85 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$1,000

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 23 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

$25,000

Official lottery data

— unclaimed of 2 originally

Remaining share unavailable: matching original and current counts are needed.

Show all 9 prize amounts

$500,000

Official lottery data

2 unclaimed of 2 originally

100.0% unclaimed

Take a closer look: prizes, calculations & sources

The numbers behind the ticket

How we work it out →
PrizeGauge estimate

Estimated average payout today

Unavailable

Estimated prize payout per ticket

PrizeGauge estimate

EV Without the Top Prize

Unavailable

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

PrizeGauge estimate

ROI Without the Top Prize

Unavailable

How that alternate average payout compares with ticket price

PrizeGauge estimate

Original EV

$22.13

Launch payout with modeled prize valuations

PrizeGauge estimate

Modeled ROI

Unavailable

Estimated net return / ticket price

PrizeGauge estimate

Average payout per $1 spent

Unavailable

A 70¢ payout per $1 spent means a 30¢ average loss

PrizeGauge estimate

Average return after the ticket cost

Unavailable

Estimated average prize payout minus the ticket price

Official lottery data

Top prizes remaining

2

Original top prizes: 2

PrizeGauge estimate

Estimated Tickets Left

Unavailable

An estimate, not an exact count from the lottery

PrizeGauge estimate

Analytics availability

Launch: available

Full current EV: insufficient data

Without top prize: insufficient data

Chance of any prize: insufficient data

Confidence rating not published

We use lottery data to estimate average payouts and tickets left. These are estimates, not promises about your next ticket. See how we work it out →

How this estimate was made

Launch basis: published inception odds. Inventory basis: inferred from prize odds.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

The lottery reports don’t give us enough reliable information to show this number.

Model assumptions
  • The complete original winning-prize counts and published overall odds describe one unchanged print cohort.

What goes into this estimate

Uses a partial prize table. Missing rows need extra assumptions.

Original prize table: complete. Remaining prize table: partial or unavailable.

Wisconsin reports remaining counts only for top prizes. Other remaining counts remain null.

The procedures describe approximate original prize counts and rounded prize odds; these describe the initial structure, not current unclaimed inventory.

See calculated counts and prize-value assumptions

These are the model’s inputs. A calculated or estimated count is separate from the literal count in the prize table.

Count and value inputs considered by the model
Prize wordingValue usedOriginal count usedRemaining count used
$30$30.00Published cash value92,000Published count—Unavailable
$50$50.00Published cash value25,323Published count—Unavailable
$100$100.00Published cash value7,015Published count—Unavailable
$150$150.00Published cash value20,999Published count—Unavailable
$250$250.00Published cash value5,428Published count—Unavailable
$500$500.00Published cash value85Published count—Unavailable
$1,000$1,000.00Published cash value23Published count—Unavailable
$25,000$25,000.00Published cash value2Published count—Unavailable
$500,000$500,000.00Published cash value2Published count2Published count

From the official source

The lottery’s prize table

Original overall odds: 1 in 3.1

These are the source’s retained rows. A dash means the count is unavailable or the sources disagree. Calculated original totals are labeled, and any derived remaining counts appear separately in the model inputs.

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Prize amounts and counts from this report. Current odds and average payout contributions, where shown, are estimates.
PrizeOriginal prizesOriginal odds · from lotteryRemaining prizes
$30
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
92,0001 in 5—
$50
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
25,3231 in 19—
$100
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
7,0151 in 66—
$150
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
20,9991 in 22—
$250
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
5,4281 in 85—
$500
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
851 in 5,412—
$1,000
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
231 in 20,000—
$25,000
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
21 in 230,000—
$500,000
Count sources & details
Original count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Remaining count source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprintd75f0ec0b6f190dd07ab38956d6bb4bd1bbfc2934f9acbf4b6ec299b121a1be1
Original odds source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
Prize row source →Retrieved Oct 25, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC
Response fingerprint783be36fef87872b687f8ed079239b4d364a42255df90cc3acd5efb95865ac6c
21 in 230,0002100.0% of 2 left

About the estimates

Methodology & source

Each lottery publishes different information. We use the available game data and stated assumptions to estimate average payouts and tickets left. An unclaimed prize count is not a count of tickets still for sale.

Published prize observations stay separate from estimates. The model uses this game's reported coverage, ticket inventory and count assumptions; unavailable values retain their source explanations.

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Game history

See how the numbers have changed

A gap means we don’t have a number

We keep the last update of each day, using Central Time. If a day has no number, we leave a gap. We don’t fill in guesses.

Past numbers preserve the estimates published on each day. This covers the dates we have collected. 7-day change: insufficient history. 30-day change: insufficient history.

Periods end on the latest recorded day, which may be earlier than today.

Estimated tickets left Last update of each day · Central Time
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Estimated tickets left observations
DateEstimated tickets leftChange from previous day
Oct 23, 2026—No daily comparison
Oct 24, 2026—No daily comparison
Oct 25, 2026—No daily comparison

Recent changes in the records

Dates show when a change was observed, not when a ticket was sold or a prize claimed.

No meaningful, comparable daily changes are available yet.