Every $25,000 Top Prize on 20Xtra Is Gone, but 3.2 Million Tickets Are Still on Sale
The last $25,000 top prize on 20Xtra, a $2 scratch-off game from the New York Lottery, was claimed on or before July 9, 2026, according to the state’s official prize-status data. It was the sixth and final top prize in a print run of just over 12 million tickets.
Here is the part most players will never hear: the game is still on sale. Roughly 3.2 million tickets — about 26 percent of the print run — were still unsold when the final top prize came off the board. Every one of them is now chasing a prize pool whose biggest remaining payout is $2,500.
What is left on 20Xtra
New York’s prize data breaks down what remained as of July 10, 2026:
| Prize | Total printed | Claimed | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| $2,500 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
| $250 | 803 | 619 | 184 |
| $100 | 9,036 | 6,937 | 2,099 |
| $50 | 25,100 | 19,524 | 5,576 |
| $25 | 48,176 | 37,212 | 10,964 |
The remaining-prize payout rate works out to about 58 cents per dollar — four points below the 62 percent median remaining payout across New York’s ten active $2 games. Our Smart Score, which ranks every active NY scratch-off game daily on remaining-prize value, now scores 20Xtra near the bottom of its price tier.
Why games keep selling after the top prizes are gone
New York, like most states, does not pull a scratch-off game from shelves the moment its top prizes are claimed. A game ends when the state announces an official end-of-game date, and retailers can sell remaining inventory until then. 20Xtra’s status is still listed as open with no announced end date.
That is legal and disclosed — the NY Lottery publishes remaining top prizes on its website — but the sign in the store window does not update itself. A player handing over $2 today is buying into a game where the headline prize printed on the ticket physically cannot be won.
The game was fast even by $2 standards
20Xtra launched on January 6, 2026. All six top prizes were claimed within just over six months, while the game was only about 74 percent sold. For comparison, a $2 game’s top prizes more often survive into the 80-90 percent sold range. Once the fifth prize went in the spring, our model flagged the last one as statistically sticky — final top prizes are claimed at less than half the rate of earlier ones — but this one beat the odds.
What players should do instead
If you like the $2 price point, the same dollar buys a live top prize elsewhere. As of today, our daily rankings list $2 games with live top prizes and materially better remaining payout rates — the current tier leader pays back over 69 cents per dollar on remaining prizes. Before buying any scratch-off game, check two numbers: how many top prizes remain, and the game’s remaining payout rate. Both are free — on the NY Lottery site and in more detail on our game pages.
Sources
- New York Lottery scratch-off prize status data (data.ny.gov), captured daily by ScratchOffsNY; top-prize depletion recorded July 9, 2026.
- NY Lottery game listing for 20Xtra (game #1683): $2 price, 1-in-4.79 overall odds, launched January 6, 2026.
- ScratchOffsNY print-run and sales-progress estimates from official pack settlement data.