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Weak valueActiveBONUS LETTER CROSSWORD · $5 · Florida Lottery
BONUS LETTER CROSSWORD: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.17 on average.
▼ -10.2 pts vs launch#15 of 17 · $5 FL games
▼ -10.2 pts vs launch#15 of 17 · $5 FL games
BONUS LETTER CROSSWORD is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the Florida state lottery. Its current expected value is 63.4%, down 10.2 percentage points from the launch value of 73.6%. 1 of the original 10 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 94% of the 22.4M printed tickets have been sold.
63.4%
expected return
1 in 4.00
odds of any win
1 of 10
$1M jackpots left
94%
claimed · 21.1M of 22.4M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 333,100 winning tickets still unclaimed.
10 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
15 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
75 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 5,084 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.17 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $5 – $500
$2.32 · 46.5% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.10 · 1.9% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$0.75 · 15.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
48.4%
Just 1 ticket out of 1.3M carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$5 – $500 wins
332,979 winning tickets remain in this range: 73% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
94% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Feb 2024.
22.4M
tickets printed
21.1M
tickets claimed · 94%
1.3M
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
10%
Tickets left
6%
10% of top prizes remain with only 6% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
Florida Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $5 FL peers
#15 of 17
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from Florida Lottery published claim data.
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