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CROSSWORD EXTREME

$250,000 top prize

$10 per play

CROSSWORD EXTREME 2285 ticket

All About CROSSWORD DELUXE

INSTANT Lottery Game No. 3353

  • $10 per play.
  • Prize payout: 70.01 per cent.
  • Overall odds of winning: 1 in 3.46.
  • $250,000 top prize.
  • Previous game: CROSSWORD DELUXE No. 3352.

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HOW TO PLAY

How to play CROSSWORD DELUXE

  1. Scratch the eighteen (18) YOUR LETTERS one at a time. For each of YOUR LETTERS revealed, scratch only that same letter each time it is found in PUZZLE 1 to PUZZLE 6.

  2. Continue until all YOUR LETTERS and corresponding letters in the Crossword PUZZLES are revealed.

  3. Reveal at least six (6) complete words in one (1) of PUZZLE 1, PUZZLE 2, PUZZLE 3 or PUZZLE 4, win the corresponding prize as per the corresponding PRIZE LEGEND. 

  4. Reveal at least three (3) complete words in one (1) of PUZZLE 5 or PUZZLE 6, win the corresponding prize as per the corresponding PRIZE LEGEND.

You can win up to four (4) times on this ticket, but only one (1) prize per PUZZLE.

Multiple wins are combinations of the $10 and $20 prize category only. 

 

 

 

 

 

CROSSWORD EXTREME 2285 ticket

PRIZE LEGENDS

PUZZLE 1 & 2 PRIZE LEGEND

UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN
6 words $10 8 words $50 10 words $10,000
7 words $20 9 words $100 11 words $25,000

PUZZLE 3 PRIZE LEGEND

UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN
6 words $10 8 words $50 10 words $25,000
7 words $20 9 words $100 11 words $250,000

PUZZLE 4 PRIZE LEGEND

UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN
6 words $10 8 words $50 10 words $1,000
7 words $20 9 words $100 11 words $25,000

PUZZLE 5 & 6 PRIZE LEGEND

UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN UNCOVER WIN
3 words $10 4 words $20 5 words $50

CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 TO PUZZLE 6 DETAILS

  1. A “word” must contain at least three (3) letters.
  2. A “word” cannot be formed from right to left, from bottom to top or diagonally in any direction.
  3. Letters combined to form a complete “word” either completely horizontally or completely       vertically in the Crossword puzzle must:
    1. appear in an unbroken horizontal or unbroken vertical sequence of letters;
    2. only use letters within the Crossword PUZZLE that are matched with YOUR LETTERS; and
    3. use every lettered square between two (2) black spaces, or one (1) black space and the edge of the Crossword PUZZLE, in an unbroken horizontal or unbroken vertical sequence.

       

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