5X The Cash#28
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.60
USA percentile
20th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
8
$10,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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5X The Cash is a $1 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #28). As of the most recent daily scan, 8 top prizes of $10,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.82. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 2 of 6 $1 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.60 EV/$, this game ranks 2 of 6 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.59).
- 1.50% of $10,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 20th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
11 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $8.76M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 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 tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — NC field
112 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
5X The Cash (#28): prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 8 of the 16 $10,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 3,035,453 of 4,885,531 prizes (62%) remain.
At current prize levels a $1 ticket returns about $0.6 on average (0.60 per dollar), which ranks 2 of 6 $1 games on sale in North Carolina, above the $1 median of 0.59. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 101 of 112; nationally it sits in the 20th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 122,832 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.
Figures come from the prize data the North Carolina lottery publishes (official game page), which Tirage checks daily; this page reflects the November 4, 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.