NC · #28 · $1

5X The Cash

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

20th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

$10,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

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5X The Cash is a $1 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #28). As of the most recent daily scan, 9 top prizes of $10 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.82. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.60 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

1.56% 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.

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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining

$10K

9/16

56%

$500

71/101

$100

1.1K/1.7K

$50

2.3K/3.4K

$25

8.3K/12.2K

$20

53.3K/78.5K

$10

160.5K/235.6K

430.8K/628.2K

162.6K/235.6K

1.2M/1.8M

1.4M/1.9M

Total unclaimed prize value: $9.85M — 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 · 20th

USA: 20th percentileNC: 10th 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 · +9%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NC field

98 games · break-even highlighted

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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