Crossword Bonanza is a $20 scratch-off from the New Jersey Lottery (game #01935) with a top prize of $400,000 and overall odds of 1 in 3.56 at launch. 2 of 3 top prizes are gone, 1 is still unclaimed, and an estimated 7% of tickets remain. Across every prize tier, 44,345 prizes are still out there (it started with 666,368).
Progress report on "Crossword Bonanza": Most of the tickets have been scratched, putting it running on its last stretch of tickets. The part worth watching is the race between the tickets running out and the top prizes running out — right now, the ticket pile is shrinking faster than the big-prize list, which is how you'd draw it up. Every line of Crossword Bonanza's prize table below is today's tally, not last month's.
| Prize | Still out there | Started with |
|---|---|---|
| $400,000 | 1 | 3 |
| $25,000 | 3 | 20 |
| $2,000 | 5 | 99 |
| $500 | 452 | 7,918 |
| $200 | 316 | 6,154 |
| $150 | 680 | 12,232 |
| $100 | 3,406 | 61,846 |
| $80 | 1,384 | 24,093 |
| $60 | 1,187 | 19,809 |
| $50 | 6,908 | 118,731 |
| $30 | 10,913 | 178,192 |
| 🎟️ Free Ticket | 19,090 | 237,271 |
Prize counts come straight from official New Jersey lottery data. SmartScratcher refreshes them every morning — last update Sep 1, 2026.
1 of the 3 top prizes of $400,000 are still unclaimed, according to official New Jersey lottery data from Sep 1, 2026.
Crossword Bonanza is a $20 scratch-off. It is game #01935 from the New Jersey Lottery.
The overall odds printed at launch are 1 in 3.56, counting every prize tier. Odds shift as tickets sell and prizes get claimed — that's exactly what the prize table on this page tracks.
Prize counts come straight from official New Jersey lottery data, last refreshed on Sep 1, 2026. SmartScratcher updates every morning.
Prize counts are just the start. SmartScratcher turns them into a ticket value, a 0–100 score, and a straight answer for every game — so you skip the picked-clean ones and play the good ones.
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