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 25% about 25% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.7 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	10	12
$500	161	211
$200	178	251
$100	544	747
$50	2,402	3,310
$30	3,643	4,983
$20	30,062	41,137
$10	193,201	263,217
$5	79,473	106,917
$4	195,797	263,216
$2	309,469	411,238

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.6534 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: 3,700,452
Estimated fraction sold: 0.2509
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.