Loteria Grande — $5 North Carolina scratch-off ticket
NC · #52 · $5

Loteria Grande

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.68

USA percentile

56th

of 2,195 games

Top prizes left

3

$150,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-11-03

Forecast sellout

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Loteria Grande is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #52). As of the most recent daily scan, 3 top prizes of $150,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.86. Our models put its expected value at 0.68 per dollar, returning about $0.68 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 12 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina.

THE THESIS

At 0.68 EV/$, this game ranks 12 of 24 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.68).

  1. 1.60% of $150,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 56th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
About this game ↓

Prize ladder

16 tiers · % remaining
$150K
3/5
60%
$10K
7/10
$1K
12/15
$500
74/105
$300
156/210
$200
358/511
$100
5.9K/8.2K
$75
3.0K/4.1K
$50
18.6K/25.7K
$40
5.6K/7.7K
$30
42.3K/59.1K
$25
74.7K/102.9K
$20
93.5K/128.5K
$15
149.6K/205.7K
$10
319.5K/437.2K
$5
455.1K/617.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $15.37M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,195 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 · 56th
USA: 56th percentileNC: 42th 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 · +9%

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 Grande: prizes, value and pace

As of November 3, 2026, 3 of the 5 $150,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 16 prize levels the lottery reports, 1,168,275 of 1,597,003 prizes (73%) remain.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.41 on average (0.68 per dollar), which ranks 12 of 24 $5 games on sale in North Carolina, level with the $5 median of 0.68. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 65 of 112; nationally it sits in the 56th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 117,356 prizes were claimed across the reported levels, including 2 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 3, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.

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