$50,000 PayoutNorth Carolina Scratch-Off Odds & Prizes Remaining
$50,000 Payout costs $20 a ticket from the North Carolina Lottery. On average it pays back about $0.75 per $1, $0.02 less than the median $20 game in North Carolina. It has been on sale since August 2024, and 40% of its prizes are still unclaimed.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- The prize pool is about half spent, half still in circulation.
- Strong expected value of $0.75 per $1: a bigger slice of ticket sales is still sitting in the prize pool than usual.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 19Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | 1 in 55,601 | 100 | 42 | 42% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 123,558 | 45 | 17 | 38% |
| $500 | 1 in 1,869 | 2,975 | 1,183 | 40% |
| $200 | 1 in 120 | 46,354 | 18,565 | 40% |
| $100 | 1 in 20 | 277,950 | 111,328 | 40% |
| $50 | 1 in 30 | 185,337 | 74,745 | 40% |
| $40 | 1 in 12 | 463,226 | 186,872 | 40% |
| $20 | 1 in 9 | 593,360 | 242,476 | 41% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
Since March 6, when our records for it began, one $50,000 top prize has been reported claimed, leaving 42. The most recent was on March 30.
- March 30, 20261 claimed · 42 left
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 $20 games (0.7% 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
- 944
- Ticket Price
- $20
- Start Date
- 8/6/2024
- Payout %
- 74.9%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/19/2026
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All 13 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000,000 Taxes Paid | 75 | 1 in 3.78 | 74.7% | $2.8M · 3 | 2.4% |
| Stacks of Cash | 70 | 1 in 3.35 | 77.6% | $2M · 2 | 0.6% |
| $2,000,000 Diamond Deluxe | 64 | 1 in 3.22 | 77.5% | $2M · 2 | 0.0% |
| Ruby Red 7's | 64 | 1 in 3.45 | 77.3% | $2M · 2 | 0.8% |
| 20 Years | 62 | 1 in 3.45 | 76.4% | $1M · 1 | 1.0% |
| Instant Millions | 60 | 1 in 3.41 | 77.2% | $2M · 2 | 0.1% |
| $2 MILLION VAULT | 59 | 1 in 3.35 | 77.2% | $2M · 1 | 0.3% |
| $50,000 Payout (this game) | 58 | 1 in 3.54 | 74.9% | $50K · 42 | 0.0% |
| Jackpot Millions | 57 | 1 in 4.67 | 75.4% | $1M · 2 | 1.4% |
| Win Big | 56 | 1 in 3.56 | 77.2% | $2M · 2 | 0.2% |
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.