A Rensselaer Man Just Won $10 Million on 300X The Money — the $30 Ticket We Ranked No. 1

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — A man from Rensselaer is $10,000,000 richer after buying a single 300X The Money scratch-off at his local Cumberland Farms. The win, confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission, landed on the $30 game that our Smart Score had ranked the No. 1 ticket in its class across New York every single day in the weeks leading up to it.

For us, that is the part of this story worth telling. The jackpot itself is luck — a one-in-five-million ticket out of millions printed. But the game it landed on was no surprise at all. If you had been reading our rankings, 300X The Money was sitting right at the top of the board.

The win

The winner, whose name we are not publishing, bought his ticket at a Cumberland Farms on North Greenbush Road in Rensselaer — an ordinary commuter-corridor convenience store in the Capital Region. He scratched a $10,000,000 top prize on 300X The Money and took it to the New York State Gaming Commission's Schenectady office to claim. A prize that size is paid out as $500,000-a-year installments, a half-million-dollar raise for the next two decades.

The Gaming Commission confirmed the win and the location. New York doesn't make a habit of publishing exactly which store sold a given top-prize ticket, which is part of why this one is worth a closer look — and why we can tell you with confidence which game it landed on, and exactly how we had that game ranked.

The game: 300X The Money ($30)

300X The Money is New York's $30 flagship scratch-off, released in spring 2026. Its top prize is the big one — $10,000,000 — and the game launched with just four of them across its entire print run.

• Top prize: $10,000,000, paid as $500,000/year installments (four total at launch)
• Odds of any prize: about 1 in 3.61
• Odds of the top prize: roughly 1 in 5 million per ticket
• Print run: about 17.8 million tickets, of which only ~16% had sold by late June

By our numbers, 300X The Money is genuinely one of the best games on the board — not because of who just won on it, but because of how much value is still locked inside the remaining print run. That is exactly what our Smart Score is built to measure.

How we had this game ranked

Every day, we re-score every active New York scratch-off and rank them by remaining value. Here is where 300X The Money sat on our board in the run-up to the Rensselaer win — pulled straight from our archived daily ranking snapshots, nothing added after the fact.

The pattern is hard to miss. 300X The Money was the No. 1 ranked $30 scratch-off in New York every single day in this stretch, and it was the No. 1 ranked ticket of any price in the entire state on multiple days — including June 10, the day before the Rensselaer claim posted. Anyone following our rankings was being pointed straight at the game that, the next morning, made someone in Rensselaer a multimillionaire.

Our data caught the win as it happened

We snapshot the New York Lottery's remaining-prize data every single day. Those snapshots are time-stamped, and ours logged the exact moment 300X The Money's top-prize count changed:

The public count dropped from four to three on June 11 — the Rensselaer win, showing up in the numbers in real time on a game we already had at the top of the list.

Where 300X The Money ranks now

Here is the good news for anyone wondering whether the big one is gone: it isn't. The Rensselaer jackpot was just one of four. Three of the four $10,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed, sitting somewhere in the remaining print run.

Today, 300X The Money carries a Smart Score of 91.4 and ranks No. 2 among all $30 New York scratch-offs — still one of the strongest plays in its price class. The game slipped a notch only because the field around it shifted, not because its value collapsed. With most of its tickets still unsold and three top prizes live, it remains exactly the kind of game our rankings are designed to surface.

What to take away as a player

1. Follow the game, not the address. A store that sold a jackpot is not more likely to sell the next one. The value lives in the game — which top prizes and big mid-tier prizes are still on the board.
2. 300X The Money still has the goods. Three of four $10 million top prizes remain, on a game that is still a top-two play at $30.
3. Check the rankings before you buy. Our Smart Score updates daily on official New York Lottery data, so you are always looking at where the value is today.
4. Play within your means. Even the best-ranked $30 ticket is still a bet with a house edge. Treat it as entertainment, never as income.

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