Hot $2,000 — $10 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #3 · $10

Hot $2,000

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.71

USA percentile

67th

of 2,082 games

Top prizes left

449

$2,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-08-31

Forecast sellout

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Hot $2,000 is a $10 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #3). As of the most recent daily scan, 449 top prizes of $2 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.80. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.71 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.22% of $2,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 67th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

8 tiers · % remaining
$2K
449/2.0K
22%
$500
110/521
$200
217/1.0K
$100
12.9K/61.4K
$50
51.4K/245.4K
$40
16.5K/78.2K
$20
132.9K/614.0K
$10
140.0K/613.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $9.57M — 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/$
YOU · 67th
USA: 67th percentileNC: 50th 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 · +41%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 41% 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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