Are the top prizes in $100,000 Cash Payday still available?

54 of 80 top prizes worth $100,000 are still unclaimed.

What does a $100,000 Cash Payday ticket pay back?

You get back about 78¢ 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 · $30 ticket · #35

$100,000 Cash Payday

Updated today

54 top prizes are still unclaimed at $100,000. A $30 ticket returns about 78¢ on average.

Pays back per $1 78¢ about 78¢ when the game launched

Top prize $100,000 54 of 80 still unclaimed

How far along 33% about 33% of tickets already sold · roughly 4.1 million tickets left (estimated) 1 in 3.49 tickets wins something

Prizes still unclaimed

Prize	Still unclaimed	Originally printed
$100,000	54	80
$30,000	7	10
$3,000	105	157
$500	7,174	10,555
$300	47,864	71,663
$150	107,205	160,462
$100	273,258	409,355
$50	328,628	491,138
$30	412,622	614,043

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7786 per $1 wagered
Expected value at launch: 0.7800 per $1 wagered
Overall odds as published: 1 in 3.49
Estimated tickets printed: 6,133,546
Estimated tickets remaining: 4,113,798
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3293
Game number: #35

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.