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Decent valueActiveCashword King · $10 · North Carolina Lottery
Cashword King: Decent value. A $10 ticket pays back $7.42 on average.
▼ -1.6 pts vs launch#7 of 16 · $10 NC games
▼ -1.6 pts vs launch#7 of 16 · $10 NC games
Cashword King is a $10 scratch-off ticket from the North Carolina state lottery. Its current expected value is 74.2%, down 1.6 percentage points from the launch value of 75.8%. 1 of the original 5 $1,000,000 top prizes are still unclaimed. Approximately 86% of the 6.0M printed tickets have been sold.
74.2%
expected return
1 in 3.57
odds of any win
1 of 5
$1M jackpots left
86%
claimed · 5.2M of 6M printed
Odds, in plain terms
If you bought 100 tickets today
Based on the 236,320 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 6,221 tickets, so they won't show up in a batch of 100.
Value map
Where the $7.42 comes from
The average payback per ticket, split by prize size. Small wins do most of the work.
Small wins $10 – $500
$6.19 · 61.9% of price
Mid prizes $1K – $10K
$0.05 · 0.5% of price
Jackpots $1M+
$1.19 · 11.9% of price
Realistic return, jackpots set aside
62.3%
Just 1 ticket out of 840k 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
236,298 winning tickets remain in this range: 83% of total value, and the wins you'll actually see.
Claim progress
86% claimed, and the jackpots are still out there
Counting every ticket since launch, Aug 2025.
6M
tickets printed
5.2M
tickets claimed · 86%
840k
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
14%
20% of top prizes remain with only 14% 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
#7 of 16
By expected return. Higher is better for the player.
Figures from North Carolina Lottery published claim data.
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