Double Your Money — $5 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #10 · $5

Double Your Money

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.63

USA percentile

31th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

0

$200,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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Double Your Money is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #10). As of the most recent daily scan, 0 top prizes of $200,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.98. Our models put its expected value at 0.63 per dollar, returning about $0.63 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 24 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina.

THE THESIS

At 0.63 EV/$, this game ranks 24 of 24 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.68).

  1. 1.Ranks in the 31st percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

10 tiers · % remaining
$200K
0/5
0%
$10K
0/10
$2K
4/30
$500
20/207
$200
32/410
$100
431/5.0K
$50
2.5K/30.2K
$30
16.9K/197.2K
$20
16.4K/176.7K
$10
82.6K/807.2K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.86M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,201 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 · 31th
USA: 31th percentileNC: 16th 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 · -25%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 25% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

Price vs EV — NC field

112 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.

ABOUT THIS GAME

Double Your Money: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 0 of the 5 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 10 prize levels the lottery reports, 119,046 of 1,217,066 prizes (10%) remain; every $200,000 prize has already been claimed.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.13 on average (0.63 per dollar), which ranks 24 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina, below the $5 median of 0.68. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 94 of 112; nationally it sits in the 31th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 1,186 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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