LOTERIA® — $3 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #959 · $3

LOTERIA®

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.62

USA percentile

30th

of 2,201 games

Top prizes left

2

$75,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-04

Forecast sellout

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18+ only. For entertainment purposes — not financial advice. Scratch-offs have a negative expected return on average. 1-800-GAMBLER if you need help.

LOTERIA® is a $3 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #959). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $75,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.99. Our models put its expected value at 0.62 per dollar, returning about $0.62 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.62 EV/$, this game returns about $0.62 for every $1 spent at current prize levels.

  1. 1.25% of $75,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 30th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

15 tiers · % remaining
$75K
2/8
25%
$10K
5/20
$1K
9/79
$500
9/159
$150
19/780
$100
564/9.3K
$70
200/7.0K
$50
503/9.2K
$30
607/18.5K
$20
7.5K/129.8K
$15
4.6K/111.3K
$10
23.7K/371.0K
$8
4.9K/92.7K
$5
58.7K/742.0K
$3
80.6K/834.4K

Total unclaimed prize value: $1.36M — 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 · 30th
USA: 30th percentileNC: 13th 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 · +6%

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

LOTERIA®: prizes, value and pace

As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 8 $75,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 15 prize levels the lottery reports, 181,805 of 2,326,182 prizes (8%) remain; the thinnest level is $150, with 2% of its prizes left.

At current prize levels a $3 ticket returns about $1.87 on average (0.62 per dollar). Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 98 of 112; nationally it sits in the 30th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 682 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, none of them a top prize.

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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