NC · #994 · $2

$25,000 Triple Play

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.52

USA percentile

5th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$25,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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$25,000 Triple Play is a $2 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #994). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $25 remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.59. Our models put its expected value at 0.52 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.52 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.52 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.25% of $25,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 5th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

12 tiers · % remaining
$25K
1/4
25%
$3K
3/8
$1K
7/29
$500
29/146
$100
100/1.6K
$50
144/2.3K
$40
490/3.4K
$20
14.9K/182.5K
$10
12.1K/114.0K
$5
15.2K/91.3K
$4
88.5K/501.8K
$2
112.6K/593.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.17M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 active games

Where this game ranks versus all active US scratch-offs (USA) and all active NC games (state). Better means more unclaimed prize value relative to remaining tickets.

USA median · 50th0.67 EV/$
NC median0.70 EV/$
YOU · 5th
USA: 5th percentileNC: 1th percentile

Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining

historical + P50 projection
Not enough historical data to render chart.

Claim heat · 30-day strip

claims per day, all tiers
30d ago15dlast 7d · -22%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 22% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — NC field

98 games · break-even highlighted
$0$15$30$520.000.300.601.04break-even · 1.00 EV/$YOU

No other active NC games currently clear break-even.

Top-prize claim cadence · the roll

Top-prize claim history is not published for this state.

States that report individual claim events (TX, NY, PA, FL, NC) will show a full timeline here. This game's state does not currently publish that data.

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