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Weak valueActiveDouble Your Money · $5 · North Carolina Lottery
Double Your Money: Weak value. A $5 ticket pays back $3.39 on average.
▼ -1.2 pts vs launch#10 of 17 · $5 NC gamesUpdated Jun 24, 2026, 12:37 PM
▼ -1.2 pts vs launch#10 of 17 · $5 NC gamesUpdated Jun 24, 2026, 12:37 PM
Double Your Money is a $5 scratch-off ticket from the North Carolina state lottery. Its current expected value is 67.8%, down 1.2 percentage points from the launch value of 69.0%. 1 of the original 5 $200,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 83% of the 6.1M printed tickets have been sold.
67.8%
expected return
1 in 4.98
odds of any win
1 of 5
$200K top prizes left
83%
claimed · 5M of 6.1M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 206,286 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 25,539 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $3.39 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$3.17 · 63.5% of price
Mid prizes $2K – $200K
$0.22 · 4.3% of price
Most of the value pays out as
$10 – $500 wins
206,278 winning tickets remain in this range: 94% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
83% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Aug 2025.
6.1M
tickets printed
5M
tickets claimed · 83%
1M
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
17%
20% of top prizes remain with only 17% 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
#10 of 17
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from North Carolina Lottery published claim data, updated Jun 24, 2026, 12:37 PM.
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