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🏆 $100K top prize claimed on Iowa's $100,000 MEGA CROSSWORD scratch-off

31 of 45 top prizes remain on the $10 game, according to the lottery's published data.

· Iowa

The Iowa lottery's own prizes-remaining data shows a top prize of $100K claimed on $100,000 MEGA CROSSWORD, a $10 scratch-off. 31 of the 45 printed now remain.

The change appeared in the published data on September 29, 2026. Lotteries publish with a lag, so the prize itself may have been claimed a day or more earlier. The figures do not say who claimed it or where, and neither do we.

Overall odds on $100,000 MEGA CROSSWORD are 1 in 3.29. They were fixed at printing and describe the whole run, including every prize already claimed.

$100,000 MEGA CROSSWORD today

PrizePrintedLeft now
$100K4529
$10K9062
$1K450305
$5001279848
$20033672258
$1001514310049

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What this does not say

That any ticket is a good buy. Every scratch game returns less than it takes in, with or without its top prize.