Emerald 10'sNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Emerald 10's costs $10 a ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. By our estimate the $1,000,000 prize is easier to hit now than at launch: about 1 in 1,029,076 per ticket, down from 1 in 1,473,825. Prizes of $10,000 and up were printed on roughly 1 in 491,275 tickets.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.5M at launch, about 1 in 1.0M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,000,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Weak prize quality: relatively few of the bigger top and mid-tier prizes are still unclaimed.
- $0.75 back per dollar puts this game's return ahead of the pack.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000,000 | 1 in 1,472,730 | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| $50,000 | 1 in 736,365 | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 368,183 | 20 | 7 | 35% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 58,442 | 126 | 33 | 26% |
| $500 | 1 in 4,732 | 1,556 | 416 | 27% |
| $200 | 1 in 1,992 | 3,696 | 985 | 27% |
| $100 | 1 in 60 | 122,741 | 33,195 | 27% |
| $50 | 1 in 48 | 153,343 | 41,543 | 27% |
| $40 | 1 in 54 | 135,874 | 36,748 | 27% |
| $20 | 1 in 10 | 736,305 | 203,417 | 28% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 785,567 | 225,270 | 29% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $1,000,000 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 0.3% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, well below 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
- 988
- Ticket Price
- $10
- Start Date
- 4/1/2025
- Payout %
- 75.1%
- 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% |
| Emerald 10's (this game) | 46 | 1 in 3.80 | 75.1% | $1M · 2 | 0.3% |
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.