NC · #7 · $10

Cashword King

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.73

USA percentile

74th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$1,000,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

Forecast sellout

18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

Cashword King is a $10 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #7). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $1M remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.57. Our models put its expected value at 0.73 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.73 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.73 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.20% of $1.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 74th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

13 tiers · % remaining
$1M
1/5
20%
$10K
2/10
$5K
2/15
$2K
4/30
$1K
18/77
$500
150/1.0K
$200
403/2.6K
$100
9.0K/56.4K
$50
19.2K/121.0K
$40
9.6K/60.5K
$30
38.3K/242.0K
$20
105.3K/605.2K
$10
123.4K/605.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $7.94M — 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 · 74th
USA: 74th percentileNC: 59th 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 · +11%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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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