Are the top prizes in $8 Million Money Maker still available?

1 of 5 top prizes worth $8,000,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $8 Million Money Maker ticket pay back?

You get back about 82¢ 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 · $50 ticket · #972

$8 Million Money Maker

Updated today

1 top prize is still unclaimed at $8,000,000. A $50 ticket returns about 82¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 82¢ about 82¢ when the game launched

Top prize $8,000,000 1 of 5 still unclaimed

How far along 79% about 79% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.2 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.14 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$8,000,000	1	5
$100,000	1	10
$25,000	10	40
$10,000	28	125
$5,000	54	259
$2,000	143	652
$500	31,398	152,169
$400	20,406	98,889
$250	79,330	380,307
$200	131,003	633,731
$100	501,073	2,408,533

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.8174 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.8206 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.14
Estimated tickets printed: 15,213,341
Estimated tickets remaining: 3,160,800
Estimated fraction sold: 0.7922
Game number: #972

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.