Fast track your D-A-Y with a $1 express ticket to fun. **Crossword Express
Scratchers ®** spells out F-U-N with tickets in three colors and up to eight
chances to win **A TOP PRIZE OF $100!**
How to play Crossword Express in California
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS: Scratch "YOUR 18 LETTERS" box to reveal your 18 letters.
Scratch the corresponding letters on the CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
If you uncover 2 or more complete words in the CROSSWORD PUZZLE, you win the prize indicated in the PRIZE KEY.
Letters forming a word filling a complete word space can only be used to form one complete WORD (e.g. "BEE" and "HIVE" within "BEEHIVE" are considered only one complete WORD).
Only highest prize won paid per ticket.
Analysis
Crossword Express has a score of 57, making it
one of the worst scratchoffs in the country.
There are 9,292,144 tickets remaining. At $1 per ticket, it would cost $9,292,144 to buy all remaining
tickets. According to the latest reports from the California lottery website, there
are $5,267,384 in remaining prizes.
The value of the remaining prizes is below
the cost of the remaining tickets by $4,024,760. With 9,292,144 tickets remaining, that's an average of
-$0.43 per ticket.
An average of 30,902 tickets have been claimed each day between
4/26/2025 and 5/3/2025. The largest prize
claimed in that time period was $100.
The last grand prize of $100
was claimed on 4/30/2025. 26,178 tickets have been sold since the last grand prize was claimed. With
34,715 grand prizes in the game,
it's expected that there will be 1 grand prize sold every 700 tickets.
