Are the top prizes in $20,000 Taxes Paid still available?

3 of 4 top prizes worth $27,774 are still unclaimed.

What does a $20,000 Taxes Paid ticket pay back?

You get back about 65¢ of every $1, on average. That is an estimate from the North Carolina Lottery's published prize counts, not a prediction for any single ticket.

North Carolina · $2 ticket · #55

$20,000 Taxes Paid

Updated today

3 top prizes are still unclaimed at $27,774. A $2 ticket returns about 65¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 65¢ about 66¢ when the game launched

Top prize $27,774 3 of 4 still unclaimed

How far along 33% about 33% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.3 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.51 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$27,774	3	4
$2,000	9	12
$500	140	211
$200	159	251
$100	482	747
$50	2,133	3,310
$30	3,201	4,983
$20	26,493	41,137
$10	170,665	263,217
$5	70,430	106,917
$4	173,694	263,216
$2	275,723	411,238

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6515 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6625 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.51
Estimated tickets printed: 4,939,546
Estimated tickets remaining: 3,291,427
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3337
Game number: #55

Payback trend across our stored snapshots:

Source: the North Carolina Lottery's own game page. Every figure here is an estimate — how we figure them.