Cactus Crossword #1444 | 🏆65
How to play Cactus Crossword in Arizona
How to Play Cactus Crossword
Step 1, Purchase a Ticket Find an Arizona Lottery retailer and tell the cashier you’d like to purchase a Cactus Crossword ticket. Tickets cannot be purchased online.
Step 2, How to Play Scratch all of the CALL LETTERS, then scratch all of the letters found in PUZZLE 1 and PUZZLE 2 that exactly match the CALL LETTERS.
PUZZLE 1 & 2: Each PUZZLE is played separately. Add the number of completed words in a single PUZZLE and win the corresponding prize found in the PRIZE KEY for that PUZZLE. Only one prize may be claimed for each PUZZLE. If you have won in PUZZLE 1 or 2, and any one of the completed words contains a "" symbol, win DOUBLE the prize for that PUZZLE.
Step 3, Claim Your Winnings $1 - $599 Prizes All Arizona Lottery retailers will redeem prizes up to $100, and may redeem prizes up to $599. Find a Location $600+ Prizes Redeem your prize by completing a Winner’s Claim Form, then mailing it or bringing it to the Phoenix or Tucson Arizona Lottery office. See our Winner’s Brochure to learn more.
Analysis
Cactus Crossword has a score of 65, making it a worse than average scratchoff.
There are 2,252,500 tickets remaining. At $5 per ticket, it would cost $11,262,500 to buy all remaining tickets. According to the latest reports from the Arizona lottery website, there are $7,374,395 in remaining prizes.
The value of the remaining prizes is below the cost of the remaining tickets by $3,888,105. With 2,252,500 tickets remaining, that's an average of -$1.73 per ticket.
An average of 1,246 tickets have been claimed each day between 8/11/2025 and 8/18/2025. The largest prize claimed in that time period was $100.
The last grand prize of $50,000 was claimed on 7/15/2025. 46,417 tickets have been sold since the last grand prize was claimed. With 24 grand prizes in the game, it's expected that there will be 1 grand prize sold every 335,870 tickets.
- Last Updated
- 8/16/2025
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Ticket Value
- $3.27
- Ticket Profit
- -$1.73
- Odds of Winning
- 1 in 3.4317
- Number Tickets Printed
- 8,060,880
- Number Tickets Remain
- 2,252,500
- Percent Tickets Remain
- 27.9436%
- Initial Expected Value
- 68.8479%
- Current Expected Value
- 65.4774%
Prizes
$50,000
| Remaining: | 6 |
| Claimed: | 18 |
| Percent Remaining: | 25.00% |
$2,500
| Remaining: | 37 |
| Claimed: | 97 |
| Percent Remaining: | 27.61% |
$100
| Remaining: | 3,286 |
| Claimed: | 10,105 |
| Percent Remaining: | 24.54% |
$50
| Remaining: | 7,726 |
| Claimed: | 23,572 |
| Percent Remaining: | 24.69% |
$40
| Remaining: | 13,404 |
| Claimed: | 40,347 |
| Percent Remaining: | 24.94% |
$25
| Remaining: | 33,838 |
| Claimed: | 100,510 |
| Percent Remaining: | 25.19% |
$20
| Remaining: | 68,413 |
| Claimed: | 200,283 |
| Percent Remaining: | 25.46% |
$10
| Remaining: | 173,663 |
| Claimed: | 464,480 |
| Percent Remaining: | 27.21% |
$5
| Remaining: | 355,999 |
| Claimed: | 853,133 |
| Percent Remaining: | 29.44% |
$0
| Remaining: | 1,596,129 |
| Claimed: | 4,115,834 |
| Percent Remaining: | 27.94% |