20X The Cash (Game #980)North Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
20X The Cash (Game #980) costs $5 a ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. By our estimate the $250,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 912,503 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,455,943. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 52,466 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.5M at launch, about 1 in 913K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $250,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
- Prizes hit less often here, roughly 23% per ticket (1 in 4.33).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 | 1 in 1,456,185 | 8 | 3 | 38% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 728,093 | 16 | 4 | 25% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 58,836 | 198 | 44 | 22% |
| $500 | 1 in 17,284 | 674 | 141 | 21% |
| $100 | 1 in 150 | 77,656 | 16,205 | 21% |
| $50 | 1 in 150 | 77,682 | 15,817 | 20% |
| $40 | 1 in 400 | 29,115 | 6,023 | 21% |
| $30 | 1 in 150 | 77,617 | 15,988 | 21% |
| $20 | 1 in 34 | 339,676 | 73,141 | 22% |
| $10 | 1 in 11 | 1,019,608 | 228,371 | 22% |
| $5 | 1 in 11 | 1,067,714 | 276,482 | 26% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 3 $250,000 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 $5 games (0.9% 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
- 980
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 2/4/2025
- Payout %
- 69.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $5 ticket in North Carolina
All 23 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC State® | 62 | 1 in 4.16 | 68.9% | $200K · 2 | 8.6% |
| Tar Heels® | 61 | 1 in 4.16 | 69.0% | $200K · 2 | 10.1% |
| 20X The Cash | 58 | 1 in 4.37 | 68.9% | $250K · 12 | 0.4% |
| CASH | 56 | 1 in 4.13 | 71.0% | $200K · 2 | 2.1% |
| Loteria Grande | 54 | 1 in 3.86 | 68.9% | $150K · 4 | 1.7% |
| Wheel of Fortune | 47 | 1 in 4.31 | 68.9% | $200K · 4 | 1.4% |
| $200,000 Taxes Paid | 47 | 1 in 4.30 | 69.0% | $278K · 2 | 4.0% |
| Jungle Cashword | 47 | 1 in 3.79 | 69.0% | $150K · 2 | 1.6% |
| Prize Link Connect | 45 | 1 in 4.29 | 68.9% | $200K · 2 | 0.5% |
| 20X The Cash (Game #980) (this game) | 33 | 1 in 4.33 | 69.0% | $250K · 3 | 0.0% |
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.