Stacks of Cash
North Carolina· scanned today
EV / Dollar
0.81
USA percentile
94th
of 2,201 games
Top prizes left
2
$2,000,000 tier
% sold-through
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2026-11-04
Forecast sellout
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Stacks of Cash is a $20 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #27). As of the most recent daily scan, 2 top prizes of $2M remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.35. Our models put its expected value at 0.81 per dollar, returning about $0.81 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 4 of 14 $20 games on sale in North Carolina.
THE THESIS
At 0.81 EV/$, this game ranks 4 of 14 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.78).
- 1.67% of $2.0M prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
- 2.Ranks in the 94th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
Prize ladder
12 tiers · % remainingTotal unclaimed prize value: $31.75M — 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
Stacks of Cash: prizes, value and pace
As of November 4, 2026, 2 of the 3 $2,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 12 prize levels the lottery reports, 586,564 of 1,317,559 prizes (45%) remain; the thinnest level is $10,000, with 33% of its prizes left.
At current prize levels a $20 ticket returns about $16.16 on average (0.81 per dollar), which ranks 4 of 14 $20 games on sale in North Carolina, above the $20 median of 0.78. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 15 of 112; nationally it sits in the 94th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.
Over the last 30 days, 33,521 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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Know when this one turns
We alert you the day a NC game crosses break-even, and send a weekly digest of what moved.