Are the top prizes in CASH still available?

2 of 3 top prizes worth $200,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a CASH ticket pay back?

You get back about 70¢ 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 · $5 ticket · #53

CASH

Updated today

2 top prizes are still unclaimed at $200,000. A $5 ticket returns about 70¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 70¢ about 71¢ when the game launched

Top prize $200,000 2 of 3 still unclaimed

How far along 39% about 39% of tickets already sold · roughly 2.9 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.13 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$200,000	2	3
$5,000	10	15
$1,000	28	39
$500	186	327
$200	272	441
$100	4,730	8,002
$50	47,171	80,001
$30	29,584	49,892
$20	85,508	143,741
$10	297,769	495,111
$5	234,172	382,916

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7028 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7095 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.13
Estimated tickets printed: 4,792,815
Estimated tickets remaining: 2,903,663
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3942
Game number: #53

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.