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 36% about 36% of tickets already sold · roughly 3.1 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	30	39
$500	195	327
$200	283	441
$100	5,044	8,002
$50	50,130	80,001
$30	31,408	49,892
$20	90,899	143,741
$10	316,308	495,111
$5	248,260	382,916

The full numbers

Expected value, current: 0.7015 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: 3,081,762
Estimated fraction sold: 0.3570
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.