20X The CashNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
20X The Cash costs $5 a ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 203,739 tickets. It pays back about $0.69 per $1 on average, in line with North Carolina's other $5 games.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.4M at launch, about 1 in 1.3M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $250,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.69 per $1 spent.
- Strong prize quality: a healthy share 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 | 1 in 1,426,576 | 15 | 12 | 80% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 534,966 | 40 | 27 | 68% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 427,973 | 50 | 37 | 74% |
| $500 | 1 in 13,374 | 1,600 | 1,113 | 70% |
| $250 | 1 in 8,553 | 2,502 | 1,750 | 70% |
| $100 | 1 in 228 | 93,894 | 65,554 | 70% |
| $50 | 1 in 80 | 267,837 | 187,308 | 70% |
| $40 | 1 in 200 | 107,001 | 74,930 | 70% |
| $20 | 1 in 33 | 641,929 | 450,596 | 70% |
| $10 | 1 in 12 | 1,854,643 | 1,307,280 | 70% |
| $5 | 1 in 11 | 1,925,810 | 1,380,732 | 72% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $250,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 12. The most recent was on August 19.
- August 19, 20261 claimed · 12 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for North Carolina's $5 games (0.8% 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
- 30
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 1/30/2026
- Payout %
- 68.9%
- 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 (this game) | 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% |
| Mega Bucks | 41 | 1 in 4.50 | 68.9% | $200K · 2 | 1.5% |
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.