$2,000,000 Diamond DeluxeNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The North Carolina Lottery sells $2,000,000 Diamond Deluxe as a $20 ticket. By our estimate the $2,000,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 401,798 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,533,769. No $20 ticket in North Carolina has better overall odds: 1 in 3.22, against 12 others at that price. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 13% of prizes remain. It has been on sale since December 2023.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.5M at launch, about 1 in 402K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $2,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Strong expected value of $0.78 per $1: a bigger slice of ticket sales is still sitting in the prize pool than usual.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000,000 | 1 in 1,535,558 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| $100,000 | 1 in 767,779 | 8 | 1 | 13% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 204,741 | 30 | 3 | 10% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 58,497 | 105 | 11 | 10% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 39,122 | 157 | 16 | 10% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,994 | 3,081 | 387 | 13% |
| $200 | 1 in 200 | 30,658 | 3,689 | 12% |
| $100 | 1 in 22 | 284,589 | 35,060 | 12% |
| $50 | 1 in 20 | 307,021 | 39,790 | 13% |
| $40 | 1 in 30 | 204,812 | 26,002 | 13% |
| $30 | 1 in 15 | 409,755 | 53,375 | 13% |
| $20 | 1 in 9 | 665,083 | 91,228 | 14% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $2,000,000 top prizes left on March 6, when our records for it began, are still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for North Carolina's $20 games (0.7% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- North Carolina
- Game Number
- 917
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 12/29/2023
- Payout %
- 77.5%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000,000 Taxes Paid | 75 | 1 in 3.78 | 74.7% | $2.8M · 3 | 2.4% |
| Stacks of Cash | 70 | 1 in 3.35 | 77.6% | $2M · 2 | 0.6% |
| $2,000,000 Diamond Deluxe (this game) | 64 | 1 in 3.22 | 77.5% | $2M · 2 | 0.0% |
| Ruby Red 7's | 64 | 1 in 3.45 | 77.3% | $2M · 2 | 0.8% |
| 20 Years | 62 | 1 in 3.45 | 76.4% | $1M · 1 | 1.0% |
| Instant Millions | 60 | 1 in 3.41 | 77.2% | $2M · 2 | 0.1% |
| $2 MILLION VAULT | 59 | 1 in 3.35 | 77.2% | $2M · 1 | 0.3% |
| $50,000 Payout | 58 | 1 in 3.54 | 74.9% | $50K · 42 | 0.0% |
| Jackpot Millions | 57 | 1 in 4.67 | 75.4% | $1M · 2 | 1.4% |
| Win Big | 56 | 1 in 3.56 | 77.2% | $2M · 2 | 0.2% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.