50X The Cash#981
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.72
USA percentile
71th
of 2,159 games
Top prizes left
1
$1,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-10-26
Forecast sellout
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50X The Cash is a $10 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #981). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $1M remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.75. Our models put its expected value at 0.72 per dollar, returning about $0.72 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 15 of 17 $10 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.72 EV/$, this game ranks 15 of 17 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.75).
- 1.17% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 71st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
13 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $6.30M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,159 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersTrailing 7-day claim rate 24% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
Price vs EV — NC field
106 games · break-even highlightedNo 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.
ABOUT THIS GAME
50X The Cash (#981): prizes, value and pace
As of October 26, 2026, 1 of the 6 $1,000,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 234,144 of 2,636,708 prizes (9%) remain; the thinnest level is $500, with 6% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.18 on average (0.72 per dollar), which ranks 15 of 17 $10 games on sale in North Carolina, below the $10 median of 0.75. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 49 of 106; nationally it sits in the 71th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 342 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
North Carolina also sells another issue of 50X The Cash: game #31. Each issue has its own print run and prize pool, so their odds and remaining prizes differ.
Figures come from the prize data the North Carolina lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the October 26, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.
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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.