Xtreme CashwordNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
Xtreme Cashword is a $5 ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. With tickets selling faster than its top prizes are claimed, our estimate for the $150,000 prize has improved to about 1 in 594,911, from 1 in 1,146,140 at launch. Only 12% of its prizes are still unclaimed. Its overall odds of 1 in 3.92 beat the 1 in 4.30 typical of North Carolina's $5 games. It has been on sale since October 2024.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 1.1M at launch, about 1 in 595K now. Tickets have sold faster than the $150,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Late in this game's life: the remaining prize pool is small.
- Expected value lands near the pack at $0.69 per $1 spent.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $150,000 | 1 in 1,151,290 | 9 | 2 | 22% |
| $5,000 | 1 in 575,645 | 18 | 1 | 6% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 58,540 | 176 | 10 | 6% |
| $500 | 1 in 23,337 | 441 | 29 | 7% |
| $300 | 1 in 19,458 | 528 | 38 | 7% |
| $200 | 1 in 11,668 | 870 | 53 | 6% |
| $100 | 1 in 1,209 | 8,562 | 670 | 8% |
| $50 | 1 in 120 | 85,971 | 6,719 | 8% |
| $40 | 1 in 400 | 25,773 | 1,958 | 8% |
| $30 | 1 in 98 | 104,863 | 8,606 | 8% |
| $20 | 1 in 20 | 515,333 | 50,124 | 10% |
| $10 | 1 in 12 | 858,235 | 92,990 | 11% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 1,030,666 | 142,326 | 14% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
All 2 $150,000 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
- 949
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 10/1/2024
- Payout %
- 69.0%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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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% |
| Xtreme Cashword (this game) | 33 | 1 in 3.92 | 69.0% | $150K · 2 | 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.