NC · #19 · $5

Holiday Cashword

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

52th

of 2,022 games

Top prizes left

1

$150,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-05

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.

Holiday Cashword is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #19). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $150 remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.93. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.33% of $150,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 52nd percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

13 tiers · % remaining
$150K
1/3
33%
$5K
5/12
$1K
27/62
$500
153/307
$250
172/370
$200
207/434
$100
2.6K/5.4K
$75
3.3K/6.9K
$50
9.1K/18.5K
$25
31.6K/61.8K
$20
80.6K/169.9K
$10
149.0K/308.9K
$5
185.8K/370.6K

Total unclaimed prize value: $6.14M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,022 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 · 52th
USA: 52th percentileNC: 37th 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 · -34%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 34% below the 30-day mean — activity slowing.

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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