$8 Million Money Maker — $50 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #972 · $50

$8 Million Money Maker

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.81

USA percentile

95th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

1

$8,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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$8 Million Money Maker is a $50 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #972). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $8M remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.14. Our models put its expected value at 0.81 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.81 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.81 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.20% of $8.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 95th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$8M
1/5
20%
$100K
3/10
$25K
10/40
$10K
32/125
$5K
66/259
$2K
166/652
$500
36.1K/152.2K
$400
23.4K/98.9K
$250
91.0K/380.3K
$200
150.6K/633.7K
$100
575.3K/2.4M

Total unclaimed prize value: $147.38M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 · 95th
USA: 95th percentileNC: 87th 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 · +32%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 32% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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