How to Play Million Dollar Crossword
Step 1, Purchase a Ticket
Find an Arizona Lottery retailer and tell the cashier you’d like to purchase a Million Dollar Crossword ticket. Tickets cannot be purchased online.
Step 2, How to Play
Scratch all of the 20 CALL LETTERS, then scratch all of the letters found in PUZZLE 1, PUZZLE 2, PUZZLE 3, and the three BONUS WORDS that exactly match the CALL LETTERS.
PUZZLE 1, 2 and 3: Each PUZZLE is played separately. Add the number of completed words in a single PUZZLE and win the corresponding prize found in the PRIZE LEGEND for that PUZZLE. Only one prize may be claimed for each PUZZLE.
BONUS WORDS 1-3: If you match all six letters in a BONUS WORD, win the prize shown in that word’s PRIZE box.
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.
There are 455,039 tickets remaining. At $30 per ticket, it would cost $13,651,170 to buy all remaining
tickets. According to the latest reports from the Arizona lottery website, there
are $15,689,715 in remaining prizes.
The value of the remaining prizes is above
the cost of the remaining tickets by $2,038,545. With 455,039 tickets remaining, that's an average of
$4.48 per ticket.
An average of 176 tickets have been claimed each day between
8/11/2025 and 8/18/2025. The largest prize
claimed in that time period was $2,000,000.
The last grand prize of $2,000,000
was claimed on 8/14/2025. 347 tickets have been sold since the last grand prize was claimed. With
7 grand prizes in the game,
it's expected that there will be 1 grand prize sold every 341,774 tickets.
