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Average valueActiveCashword King · $10 · North Carolina Lottery
Cashword King: Average value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.36 on average.
▼ -2.2 pts vs launch#8 of 15 · $10 NC games
▼ -2.2 pts vs launch#8 of 15 · $10 NC games
Cashword King is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the North Carolina state lottery. Its current expected value is 73.6%, down 2.2 percentage points from the launch value of 75.8%. 1 of the original 5 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 85% of the 6.0M printed tickets have been sold.
73.6%
expected return
1 in 3.57
odds of any win
1 of 5
$1M jackpots left
85%
claimed · 5.1M of 6M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 253,943 winning tickets still unclaimed.
16 win more than $10
$20 – $200, an actual profit
12 win their money back
a $10 prize, so you break even
72 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 6,403 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.36 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.22 · 62.2% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.04 · 0.4% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$1.10 · 11.0% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
62.6%
Just 1 ticket out of 903k carry the $1M+ prizes. This is your expected return if none of them is yours.
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
253,921 winning tickets remain in this range: 84% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
85% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Aug 2025.
6M
tickets printed
5.1M
tickets claimed · 85%
903k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Jackpots are outlasting sales: good for buyers.
Jackpots left
20%
Tickets left
15%
20% of top prizes remain with only 15% of tickets left to claim them.
Where to buy
North Carolina Lottery
At retailers statewide, or online through Jackpocket. Affiliate link: Scratchstats may earn a commission.
Rank vs $10 NC peers
#8 of 15
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from North Carolina Lottery published claim data.
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