Are the top prizes in Crossword still available?

17 of 20 top prizes worth $20,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a Crossword ticket pay back?

You get back about 65¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the New Jersey Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

New Jersey · $3 ticket · #01980

Crossword

Updated today

17 top prizes are still unclaimed at $20,000. A $3 ticket returns about 65¢ on average.

Includes free-ticket prizes

Pays back per $1 65¢ about 65¢ when the game launched

Top prize $20,000 17 of 20 still unclaimed

How far along 12% about 12% of tickets already sold · roughly 12.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.894 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$20,000	17	20
$5,000	19	22
$500	41	46
$100	28,338	32,645
$25	366,021	421,589
$10	512,215	590,267
$5	734,335	843,226
Free ticket	864,448	983,729

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6458 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6501 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.894
Estimated tickets printed: 14,053,336
Estimated tickets remaining: 12,298,187
Estimated fraction sold: 0.1249
Game number: #01980

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

Source: the New Jersey Lottery's own game page. Every figure here is an estimate — how we figure them.