NC · #982 · $1

Lucky 7s

North Carolina· scanned 62d ago

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.52

USA percentile

5th

of 1,986 games

Top prizes left

1

$7,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-05-27

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.

Lucky 7s is a $1 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #982). As of the most recent daily scan, 1 top prize of $7 remains unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.83. Our models put its expected value at 0.52 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.52 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.52 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.14% of $7,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 5th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Read the full case ↓

Prize ladder

14 tiers · % remaining
$7K
1/7
14%
$500
2/14
$300
5/44
$200
4/88
$100
80/883
$50
175/1.9K
$40
251/2.6K
$30
549/5.4K
$20
1.9K/17.2K
$10
17.9K/155.3K
$6
18.8K/146.5K
$3
27.3K/189.7K
$2
124.2K/793.1K
$1
153.6K/828.0K

Total unclaimed prize value: $867,653 — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,986 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 · 5th
USA: 5th percentileNC: 1th 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

Price vs EV — NC field

94 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.

SIMILAR PLAYS IN NC

If you like this game, look at these

Same state · same price tier · similar EV signal