Extreme Money Blowout — $20 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #43 · $20

Extreme Money Blowout

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.75

USA percentile

83th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2981

$2,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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Extreme Money Blowout is a $20 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #43). As of the most recent daily scan, 2981 top prizes of $2,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 9.88. Our models put its expected value at 0.75 per dollar, returning about $0.75 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 11 of 14 $20 games on sale in North Carolina.

THE THESIS

At 0.75 EV/$, this game ranks 11 of 14 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.78).

  1. 1.48% of $2,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 83rd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

3 tiers · % remaining
$2K
3.0K/6.2K
48%
$200
57.3K/123.2K
$100
172.2K/369.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $34.64M — 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 · 83th
USA: 83th percentileNC: 68th 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 · +2%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

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

Extreme Money Blowout: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2981 of the 6,166 $2,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 3 prize levels the lottery reports, 232,466 of 499,321 prizes (47%) remain; the thinnest level is $200, with 46% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $15.08 on average (0.75 per dollar), which ranks 11 of 14 $20 games on sale in North Carolina, below the $20 median of 0.78. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 36 of 112; nationally it sits in the 83th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 25,852 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 321 top prizes.

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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