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Weak valueActiveDouble Your Money · $5 · North Carolina Lottery
Double Your Money: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.14 on average.
▼ -6.2 pts vs launch#19 of 20 · $5 NC games
▼ -6.2 pts vs launch#19 of 20 · $5 NC games
Double Your Money is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the North Carolina state lottery. Its current expected value is 62.8%, down 6.2 percentage points from the launch value of 69.0%. 0 of the original 5 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 90% of the 6.1M printed tickets have been sold.
62.8%
expected return
1 in 4.98
odds of any win
0 of 5
$200K top prizes left
90%
claimed · 5.4M of 6.1M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 128,787 winning tickets still unclaimed.
20 win more than $5
$10 – $200, an actual profit
0 win their money back
a $5 prize, so you break even
80 win nothing
the house edge, made visible
Prizes of $500 or more hit about 1 in 22,701 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.14 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$3.12 · 62.5% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $200K
$0.02 · 0.3% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
128,782 winning tickets remain in this range: 100% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
90% of the print run claimed
Counting every ticket since launch, Aug 2025.
6.1M
tickets printed
5.4M
tickets claimed · 90%
636k
still out there
Prizes claimed over time
Claim chart needs more snapshot history
Sales are outpacing the jackpots: worse for buyers.
Jackpots left
0%
Tickets left
10%
0% of top prizes remain with 10% 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 $5 NC peers
#19 of 20
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from North Carolina Lottery published claim data.
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