Diamonds and Dollars
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.69
USA percentile
61th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$200,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Diamonds and Dollars is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #41). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $200,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.37. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 7 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.69 EV/$, this game ranks 7 of 24 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.68).
- 1.50% of $200,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 61st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
9 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $4.62M — 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
Diamonds and Dollars: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 4 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 9 prize levels the lottery reports, 305,049 of 1,170,658 prizes (26%) remain; the thinnest level is $2,000, with 23% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.47 on average (0.69 per dollar), which ranks 7 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina, above the $5 median of 0.68. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 58 of 112; nationally it sits in the 61th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 63,751 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.