We Ranked This $20 Ticket in New York's Top 10 for Two Weeks. Then Its $5 Million Hit — and We Found the Store.

On May 13, 2026, one of the four $5,000,000 top prizes on the $20 Mystery Multiplier scratch-off was claimed somewhere in New York. We did not need the announcement to know the game was worth watching. For the two weeks leading up to that claim, Mystery Multiplier had been sitting near the very top of our statewide rankings — in the top 10 every single day, and No. 1 in the entire state on May 4.

This post is the receipt, and it has a second half the others have not had yet. New York does not name the store behind a winning scratch-off right away — the official winner record lands about 30 to 45 days after the prize is claimed. That record is now in, and it names the store: the Walmart Supercenter at 460 Fairview Avenue in Hudson. So for once we can show you both halves of the story — where our rankings had the game before the win, and exactly where the winning ticket was sold.

The game: Mystery Multiplier ($20)

Mystery Multiplier is a $20 New York scratch-off built around a hidden multiplier that can turn a modest line into a top prize of $5,000,000. It launched with four of those top prizes across the whole print run. By the math that actually matters — how much prize money is left versus how many tickets remain to buy it — the game spent the spring as one of the strongest plays on the board:

• A $5,000,000 headline prize, four printed in total
• Top-prize odds of about 1 in 4.24 million per ticket
• A deep stack of mid-tier prizes still live through the spring
• A remaining-value profile that kept it in our statewide top 10 for two straight weeks

The receipt: our daily rank for Mystery Multiplier

Each row below is the rank that appeared on the live rankings page that morning — among all active New York scratch-offs, and within the $20 aisle. Nothing here was added after the claim.

That is 15 straight days inside New York's top 10, with a turn at No. 1 in the whole state and a top-three seat in the $20 aisle every single day — right up to and including the day a top prize was claimed. We are not claiming we held No. 1 outright the entire time; we are showing you the honest, day-by-day record, and it kept the game in plain view the whole way in.

And this time, we can tell you where it sold

Here is the part the earlier case studies could not include. New York publishes its official winner announcement about a month after a prize is claimed, and the Mystery Multiplier announcement has now posted. It confirms the selling location:

So the timeline lines up cleanly, in public: our rankings flagged the game for two weeks → the remaining-prize count dropped on May 13, the day we logged the claim → about a month later, the New York Lottery named the Hudson Walmart as the store that sold it.

This is not the first call we have shown our work on

One correct read could be luck. A pattern is more interesting. Mystery Multiplier joins a growing list of top-prize claims we had flagged near the top of the board before the New York Lottery announced them:

• Set For Life. The $10 game held our No. 1 spot for 13 of the 14 days before one of its lifetime top prizes was claimed on June 24.
• $10,000 a Week for Life. We ranked the $20 game No. 1 on four of the eight days before its top prize hit, and held it in the top three the whole week in.
• 100Xtra. Another $5,000,000 game we had near the top of the board before its top prize was claimed.

Different price points, different games, the same idea: follow where the remaining value actually is, and you end up standing near the action more often than chance alone would put you there.

The honest fine print

We would rather tell you the truth than oversell a good call.

Where Mystery Multiplier stands now

The good news for anyone wondering whether the big one is gone: it isn't. The May claim was one of four. Two of the four $5,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed as of late June 2026, and the game still carries a Smart Score of 93 — one of the stronger $20 plays on the board, even after shedding a top prize.

What to take away as a player

1. Watch the top of the rankings, not the size of the jackpot. Mystery Multiplier earned its spot on remaining value, not hype.
2. Follow the game, not the store. The Hudson Walmart was where one winning ticket sold — not a reason to expect the next one there. Two top prizes are still live on the game itself.
3. A steady rank beats a one-day spike. Two weeks in the top 10 is a far stronger signal than a game that flickers to the top for a single morning.
4. Play within your means. Even the best-ranked ticket is still a bet. Treat it as entertainment, never as income.

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Data sourced from the official New York Lottery prize reports and winner records at nylottery.ny.gov. All ranks in this article are exactly as published on the day shown. For entertainment and informational purposes only. Please play responsibly. If gambling is a problem for you or someone you know, call the New York Problem Gambling HOPEline at 1-877-846-7369.