
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.79
USA percentile
92th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
1
$1,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Cashword King is a $10 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #7). 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 3.57. Our models put its expected value at 0.79 per dollar, returning about $0.79 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 18 $10 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.79 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 18 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.75).
Total unclaimed prize value: $3.75M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
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.
Trailing 7-day claim rate 54% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.
No other active NC games currently clear break-even.
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
As of November 4, 2026, 1 of the 5 $1,000,000 top prizes is still unclaimed; across the 13 prize levels the lottery reports, 132,854 of 1,693,991 prizes (8%) remain; the thinnest level is $500, with 5% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.9 on average (0.79 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 18 $10 games on sale in North Carolina, above the $10 median of 0.75. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 24 of 112; nationally it sits in the 92th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 27,619 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.
SIMILAR PLAYS IN NC
Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal
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