Cashword KingNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
The North Carolina Lottery sells Cashword King as a $10 ticket. By our estimate the $1,000,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 497,537 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,209,510. Its prize pool is nearly spent: 8% of prizes remain.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.2M at launch, about 1 in 498K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Strong expected value of $0.76 per $1: a bigger slice of ticket sales is still sitting in the prize pool than usual.
- You win something fairly often here, about 28% per ticket (1 in 3.57).
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 1 in 1,208,753 | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 604,376 | 10 | 1 | 10% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 402,918 | 15 | 1 | 7% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 201,459 | 30 | 2 | 7% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 77,984 | 77 | 8 | 10% |
| $500 | 1 in 5,969 | 1,010 | 56 | 6% |
| $200 | 1 in 2,375 | 2,554 | 152 | 6% |
| $100 | 1 in 107 | 56,437 | 3,322 | 6% |
| $50 | 1 in 50 | 121,049 | 7,097 | 6% |
| $40 | 1 in 100 | 60,523 | 3,547 | 6% |
| $30 | 1 in 25 | 241,961 | 14,010 | 6% |
| $20 | 1 in 10 | 605,160 | 45,486 | 8% |
| $10 | 1 in 10 | 605,160 | 65,683 | 11% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $1,000,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 1. The most recent was on July 1.
- July 1, 20261 claimed · 1 left
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.8% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, close to the average for North Carolina's $10 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
- 7
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 8/5/2025
- Payout %
- 75.8%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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Every $10 ticket in North Carolina
All 17 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moneybag Cashword | 85 | 1 in 3.56 | 75.5% | $1M · 4 | - |
| 50X The Cash | 76 | 1 in 3.79 | 74.8% | $1M · 10 | 0.4% |
| Jumbo Bucks | 64 | 1 in 3.84 | 74.9% | $1M · 3 | 1.3% |
| $1,000,000 Taxes Paid | 59 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.3% | $1.4M · 2 | 3.8% |
| LOTERIA™ MULTIPLIER | 59 | 1 in 3.63 | 75.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.5% |
| Triple Red 777 Jackpot | 57 | 1 in 3.80 | 75.1% | $1M · 1 | 2.7% |
| $1,000,000 Triple Play | 54 | 1 in 3.84 | 75.1% | $1M · 4 | 0.3% |
| $1,000,000 Money Rush | 53 | 1 in 3.78 | 75.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.0% |
| $10 MONOPOLY® | 50 | 1 in 3.81 | 75.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.3% |
| Cashword King (this game) | 45 | 1 in 3.57 | 75.8% | $1M · 1 | 0.8% |
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.