Cash DropNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Cash Drop costs $2 a ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. By our estimate the $20,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 995,177 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,721,788. Prizes of $1,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 245,970 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.7M at launch, about 1 in 995K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $20,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Prizes hit less often here, roughly 22% per ticket (1 in 4.63).
- This game is partway played through, with a fair share of prizes remaining.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,000 | 1 in 1,720,388 | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 286,731 | 24 | 11 | 46% |
| $500 | 1 in 78,199 | 88 | 40 | 45% |
| $200 | 1 in 25,968 | 265 | 100 | 38% |
| $100 | 1 in 4,776 | 1,441 | 598 | 41% |
| $50 | 1 in 2,907 | 2,367 | 936 | 40% |
| $40 | 1 in 1,843 | 3,734 | 1,490 | 40% |
| $20 | 1 in 38 | 183,508 | 75,435 | 41% |
| $10 | 1 in 60 | 114,662 | 47,448 | 41% |
| $5 | 1 in 50 | 137,661 | 59,623 | 43% |
| $4 | 1 in 15 | 447,328 | 191,771 | 43% |
| $2 | 1 in 12 | 596,424 | 267,368 | 45% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $20,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 3. The most recent was on June 27.
- June 27, 20261 claimed · 3 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.4% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below the average for North Carolina's $2 games (1.1% 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
- 12
- Ticket Price
- $2
- Start Date
- 10/7/2025
- Payout %
- 66.3%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $2 ticket in North Carolina
| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10X The Cash | 38 | 1 in 4.67 | 66.3% | $50K · 8 | 0.4% |
| $20,000 Taxes Paid | 38 | 1 in 4.51 | 66.3% | $28K · 2 | 4.7% |
| Corner Payout | 37 | 1 in 4.54 | 66.3% | $20K · 2 | 1.2% |
| Cash Drop (this game) | 31 | 1 in 4.63 | 66.3% | $20K · 3 | 0.4% |
| Jr Big Ol Bucks | 31 | 1 in 4.75 | 66.3% | $50K · 2 | 1.4% |
| Easy $100s | 30 | 1 in 4.68 | 66.3% | $20K · 2 | 1.0% |
| 777 | 19 | 1 in 4.68 | 66.3% | $20K · 2 | 0.8% |
| LADY LUCK | 19 | 1 in 4.58 | 66.3% | $20K · 2 | 0.0% |
| $25,000 Triple Play | 17 | 1 in 4.59 | 66.3% | $25K · 1 | 0.0% |
| Junior BIG OL' BUCKS® | 8 | 1 in 4.75 | 66.3% | $50K · 1 | 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.