Hot $2,000
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.71
USA percentile
67th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
370
$2,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Hot $2,000 is a $10 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #3). As of the most recent daily scan, 370 top prizes of $2,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.80. Our models put its expected value at 0.71 per dollar, returning about $0.71 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 16 of 18 $10 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.71 EV/$, this game ranks 16 of 18 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.75).
- 1.18% of $2,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 67th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
8 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $7.98M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.
EV percentile · USA + state
vs 2,201 active gamesWhere 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.
Burn-down forecast · % tickets remaining
historical + P50 projectionClaim heat · 30-day strip
claims per day, all tiersClaim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.
Price vs EV — NC field
112 games · break-even highlightedNo 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
Hot $2,000: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 370 of the 2,048 $2,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 8 prize levels the lottery reports, 297,560 of 1,616,620 prizes (18%) remain; the thinnest level is $500, with 17% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $10 ticket returns about $7.06 on average (0.71 per dollar), which ranks 16 of 18 $10 games on sale in North Carolina, below the $10 median of 0.75. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 53 of 112; nationally it sits in the 67th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 27,325 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 37 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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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.