NC · #48 · $5

Wheel of Fortune

North Carolina· scanned today

Lottery site

EV / Dollar

0.70

USA percentile

65th

of 2,154 games

Top prizes left

$200,000 tier

% sold-through

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2026-10-25

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.

Wheel of Fortune is a $5 scratch-off game from the North Carolina lottery (game #48). As of the most recent daily scan, 4 top prizes of $200,000 remain unclaimed, as published by the North Carolina lottery. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 4.31. Our models put its expected value at 0.70 per dollar, returning about $0.70 per dollar on average at current prize levels, number 3 of 23 $5 games on sale in North Carolina.

THE THESIS

At 0.70 EV/$, this game ranks 3 of 23 same-price games on sale in North Carolina (median 0.68).

1.80% of $200,000 prizes still unclaimed at ??% sell-through — the top tier has not burned out.
2.Ranks in the 65th percentile of all active US scratch-off games by expected value per dollar.

About this game ↓

Prize ladder

11 tiers · % remaining

$200K

4/5

80%

$10K

5/10

$2K

14/20

$500

154/281

$200

295/561

$100

2.5K/4.6K

$50

43.3K/79.1K

$25

20.4K/37.1K

$20

179.0K/333.6K

$10

171.1K/315.1K

288.4K/518.9K

Total unclaimed prize value: $10.67M — weighted to top-tier prizes as of latest data feed.

EV percentile · USA + state

vs 2,154 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 · 65th

USA: 65th percentileNC: 50th 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 · +2%

Claim velocity is consistent with the 30-day mean.

Price vs EV — NC field

106 games · break-even highlighted

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

Wheel of Fortune: prizes, value and pace

As of October 25, 2026, 4 of the 5 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed; across the 11 prize levels the lottery reports, 705,108 of 1,289,278 prizes (55%) remain.

At current prize levels a $5 ticket returns about $3.51 on average (0.70 per dollar), which ranks 3 of 23 $5 games on sale in North Carolina, above the $5 median of 0.68. Among every North Carolina game with a computable value it is 53 of 106; nationally it sits in the 65th percentile. Like nearly every scratch-off, it pays back less than it costs on average.

Over the last 30 days, 72,607 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 October 25, 2026 update. See how we calculate value.

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