Are the top prizes in Hit $50! still available?

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

What does a Hit $50! ticket pay back?

You get back about 59¢ 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 · $1 ticket · #51

Hit $50!

Updated today

3 top prizes are still unclaimed at $5,000. A $1 ticket returns about 59¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 59¢ about 60¢ when the game launched

Top prize $5,000 3 of 5 still unclaimed

How far along 30% about 30% of tickets already sold · roughly 6.0 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 4.92 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$5,000	3	5
$100	54	84
$50	14,583	21,957
$20	4,768	7,167
$10	48,414	72,036
$5	117,206	172,794
$3	59,005	86,296
$2	487,476	705,382
$1	486,167	690,885

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.5896 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.6039 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 4.92
Estimated tickets printed: 8,642,502
Estimated tickets remaining: 6,026,578
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3027
Game number: #51

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.