Hit $50! — $1 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #51 · $1

Hit $50!

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.60

USA percentile

20th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

4

$5,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

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.

Hit $50! is a $1 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #51). As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $5 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.92. Our models put its expected value at 0.60 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.60 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.60 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.80% of $5,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 20th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

9 tiers · % remaining
$5K
4/5
80%
$100
67/84
$50
18.2K/22.0K
$20
5.9K/7.2K
$10
60.3K/72.0K
$5
145.3K/172.8K
$3
72.8K/86.3K
$2
598.2K/705.4K
$1
590.9K/690.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $4.39M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,082 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 · 20th
USA: 20th percentileNC: 10th 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 · +22%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 22% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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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