NC · #48 · $5

Wheel of Fortune

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.69

USA percentile

60th

of 1,955 games

Top prizes left

5

$200,000 tier

% sold-through

2026-07-21

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.

Wheel of Fortune is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina (game #48). As of the most recent daily scan, 5 top prizes of $200 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.31. Our models put its expected value at 0.69 per dollar, among the stronger plays in its price tier, returning about $0.69 per dollar on average at current prize levels.

THE THESIS

At 0.69 EV/$, this game offers above-average expected return relative to its price tier, with meaningful prize coverage remaining.

  1. 1.100% of $200,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
  2. 2.Ranks in the 60th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.
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Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining
$200K
5/5
100%
$10K
8/10
$2K
17/20
$500
247/281
$200
476/561
$100
4.0K/4.6K
$50
68.1K/79.1K
$25
31.9K/37.1K
$20
286.6K/333.6K
$10
271.5K/315.1K
$5
450.3K/518.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $16.63M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 1,955 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/$
YOU · 60th
USA: 60th percentileNC: 48th 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 · +481%

Trailing 7-day claim rate 481% above the 30-day mean — velocity accelerating.

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.

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